Swim toward the light

Again this year I joined the Devonport Swim Club’s Around North Head swim.. 4th time I think.

This is the one where you have the option of swimming out to a boat with your suit (togs in NZ, swimmers in AU) on, stripping off, and retrieving your clothes just before exiting the water. And again, despite keeping my eyes peeled as carefully as any randy teenager, the reality of all that nudity proved way less R-rated than you’d think.

Normally this swim is one of the earliest summer events, but this year it was postponed due to a massive sewage leak. Our new government’s answer to the country’s problems— to everything actually — is to cut taxes for the wealthy, so I guess we’ll see how that translates into billions of public dollars to repair Depression-era infrastructure.

I was extra slow this time due to inconsistent training and a lack of killer instinct in the crowded spots, but I had a good swim anyway. And because I forgot to start my watch, I wasn’t fiddling with it for the finish line pic like I usually am!