Day #220 Great Swimming ...

... if you like it WILD - Point Petre, southwest side of PEC on Lake ON, and a free area.
It's a shale beach so that you walk into the water on long slabs of slate-coloured shale, not unlike a basement floor, except for this cove which is composed of small stones that are really hard to walk on.
It gets deep quickly and is cold. Makes for a wonderfully refreshing swim - if you can manage the frigidity.
Walk further on down, and someone has made a bench for us to relax on while we watch the fairies dancing and sparkling on the wavelets in the late afternoon.

Watch out for poison ivy along the shoreline in the cracks between the rocks on the shore, and in the fields above. I sprayed the ones I saw 2 years ago in the swimming area at the cove.
If you think it may have touched you, go into the water right away and rinse off the oil. It's water-soluble, but be sure to shower again at home with a good strong soap, and launder all clothing, including shoes.
Look how fast time has gone since Day #365.
Hard to believe - it's Day #220 today. I missed yesterday. Having fun baby-sitting my grandson, watching 'Cars' with him, going shopping, going for icecream, and sitting in the sun with the neighbours on our back deck and feeding them watermelon.
Is this really what retirement is like? I can hardly wait until February.