A completely different day today! Temperatures have dropped by 18 degrees, the clouds are down and the skies full of rain and drizzle. By evening the showers had tended to ease off, so we got into our wetsuits at the house, took a chance and made a dash for the river.
I'd spent the afternoon sailing - around Sydney Harbour! Usually today, I'd be helping to run a sailing competition up at Llyn Brenig. Well, I was still helping out, but we ran the competition using a virtual sailing race simulator - so chose Australia as the venue! It was great fun, especially being able to talk to everyone as they raced.
With everyone safely back on virtual dry land, we escaped The Cottage, still with a few spots of rain in the air. Down by the water's edge, it certainly felt colder than the past few days. There was no time for procrastination; it was too cold and blustery - we had to get straight in or go home!
The pool was about 20cm higher than last week and although it looked calm, there was quite a strong current to swim against as we went upstream. We got to a narrowing where the water was flowing faster and ferry glided across the flow which was fun, before floating back towards the bags.
The skies had turned really dark as we swam back and we rushed to get changed as the rain started to fall. Unlike previous days, we were both shaking and shivering uncontrollably. Getting changed was tricky with numb fingers and feet! We stumbled back up to the car as the heavens opened again. In a hot shower back at The Cottage, we tingled all over as we tried to warm back up.
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