🏷️ swimming

Another bike trip up to Windmill Pt in Fort Erie. I love swimming there. We saw so many purple martins along the way. If you haven't been, go.

@joe and I hit the beach on Saturday. The water there is so much cleaner than here. I wish it was close by but then it would be disgusting.

The water is so warm here in Venice.

We went down to Presque Isle for the day. I wish we left to go earlier, as in earlier in the summer, lol.

It was still nice to swim in a cleaner part of lake Erie. The beaches are so nice there.

We did so much swimming at Jabe, morning, noon and night. For most of the trip we were the only people there, especially at sunset.

One sunset @joe and I swam almost all the islands non stop. It was about an hour and a half of continuous swimming in pretty cool water. The water was 75ft deep in the middle to 1ft deep near the islands. It was so hard not to cut your feet and legs as you got closer the rocks.

I am pretty confident swimming for long periods of time after a lifetime of swimming and a lot of practice at the quarry. The distance we swam was much greater than the distance to any shore from any other point on the pond.

Knowing I can swim the entire pond no problem made it especially annoying that the police stopped by Sunday morninh for memorial day weekend and gave me a ticket for wearing no life jacket in the kayak in the same pond.

They were there right as I pulled up the the shore near the parking lot to go get more ice for the cooler. I would understand it if we were even in the remotest risk here but not at this pond.

Thanks to the annoying as hell police, we wasted most of a beautiful day looking to buy a coast guard approved level 3 life jacket

It was quite difficult to find a certified life jacket in a place without a lot of stores. Walmart doesn't have them, at least not at that Walmart and at that rating, only level 4 PFDs there. The gas stations and general stores didn't have them. We eventually found a canoe rental place that sold them. 3 hours, $65 later, I now own a life jacket that I will never wear on a pond of that size.

The law is especially stupid as you don't have to be wearing them. They just need to be on board.

The police man that ticketed me told me this story about how you "just never know when you might fall in". He said one time, he was pulling over this kid on the water for not having a lifejacket, and the kid went to grab his lifejacket from under his seat to show the policeman he had one. When the kid stood up in the canoe to show him the lifejacket, he tipped the canoe over and hit his head and fell in the water unconscious. " Luckily" the policeman was there to save him. I kept thinking to myself, " does this douchebag know how much of an asshole he sounds like telling this story". The kid was following the law and by harassing him, he was seriously injured and his life put in danger. If that was me I would have sued the crap out of him.

I don't understand why an adult cannot decide to just take the risk with their own life in these types of situations.

When I am swimming across I don't require one. I should be able to determine when it's needed for me in a kayak on the same water. Unlike a seatbelt, me not having one isn't going to put anyone else at risk as I am not going to be ejected from the backseat or out the front window.

It reminds me of the lifeguards blowing the whistle when I go into 4 ft water in lake erie, despite people being able to swim just about anywhere they damn well please in the much more dangerous rivers and ocean front beaches in our state.

I hate police. To this day, in my 37th year, I have never had a positive experience with a police person. I wouldn't be sad if that one drowned.

We rode our bikes up to Fort Erie's Windmill Pt to go swimming yesterday. The weather was amazing, not too cold and not burning hot. I forgot to take pictures of the water because we were having too much fun.

On the way out we tried to check out the quarry next to it but it was all private property.

Then some random blond Asian dude started to follow and chat with us. I am glad there was a border.

Lake Erie is totally disgusting right now. It seems like it keeps getting worse. We tried to escape to the lake to get away from the concert but it smelled so badit made me want to throw up.

They have to do something about the sewage issue in the south towns now. The smell of sewage in the water is overwhelming after the rain. Plus you can see it.

After seeing the ocean last week it makes me want to skip town forever.

I literally don't understand how anyone could want to live on Lake front property.

After a day of non-stop gardening we biked to Canada for some swimming, then swam across the freezing quary twice before heading back to the states. The peace bridge is under construction now so you travel on the Canadian sidewalk going both ways.

Its awesome to just be able to skip all the cars going into Canada.

This mega exercise weekend started out with a fast paced bike ride to Windmill Point Quarry to swim across and back the quarry before a face paced bike ride home over the peace bridge. I feel like it set a pace for the entire weekend which pretty much zoomed by.

We make the trip to Canada all the time to go swimming at Windmill Point because the water is so clear. We go so much that this time we had 2 free swims from the frequent swimmer pass.

The difference was this time the water was so full of algae I could barely see my feet underwater. Last year we came for @terry's birthday at the same time of year and it was was clear then.