Thank you Steve. Your book gives us even a little more motivation. It appears that we have completed 28 out of 54 total piers so we have 25 to go. We are going to do the channel island piers as well (there appears to be only 4…Catalina 2, Santa Rosa 1 and Santa Cruz 1, We can take notes and send them to you as we do this.
Please let me know what you would want (ie, pictures, notes, descriptions, pier lengths, date built etc)
Scott
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:58 AM, wrote:
This is great information. Discovery is one of the joys of open water
swimming. Over the next 12 months, I am completing a book that I set out
writing a few years ago – California Coastal Swimming. It is a
description of every beach along the California coast from the perspective
of an open water swimmer. I think adding your perspective of the piers
would be a great addition with, of course, all due credit to you.
> Steve, I completed my 5 missing piers this weekend. I then started
> researching Nor Cal piers and while doing so, discovered that we had
> missed
> 4 piers in So Cal (Dana Point, Coronado, Shelter island and Embarcadero).
>
> As a result, Ray, Lynn Julian and myself are going to do these 4 piers,
> then head over to the channel islands and knock out whatever we can there.
> We intend to then go to nor cal and do the 19 piers which are on the
> Pacific Ocean. We are not going to do the 32+ piers which are in the San
> Francisco Bay at this time.
>
> If we are successful, I guess we will have swam around every California
> Pier which touches the Pacific Ocean. For some reason, the people who have
> written about piers do not consider the piers in SB Bay as part of the
> Pacific pier group.
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 1:29 PM, wrote:
>
>> It is also one of America’s Top 100 Open Water Swims:
>>
>> http://openwaterswimming.wiki/index.php?title=America%27s_Top_100_Open_Water_Swims
>>
>> It will also be noted in the 350-page Open Water Swimming Almanac that I
>> are soon publishing.
>>
>> Your creativity is being duly noted and promoted.
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