Wild, wind-swept day with breakers racing to be first to throw themselves against the flinty beach.

Kelp was being washed up and slowly dried by the sharp wind. Long leathery thongs glisten and shimmer even without sunlight.

Psychologically hard to decide to go in, but fantastic water with choppy tops on the fast rolling waves.

Long passages of an unseen force run forward to the rocky beach and fizzle out as they are taken over by the breakers. Swimming was easy and fearfulness was gone. Water was not cold, but didn’t stay too long, as leg muscles a bit stiff.

Moving in the water is free and exciting, especially since everything around is moving with such force.