#Aquatic park

[remembertheplunge]

A day in the life

September 24, 2022 Saturday 9:40pm

Although I should have stayed home, cleaned and worked cases, the Ocean Goddess called and I had to answer.

I swam one half mile in Aquatic Park, at the behest of Ken, who rescued me the 2nd hypothermic shock incident that I had. For that, he said that I owe him a beer.

He said to eat oatmeal and to dink warm tea pre swim for fuel.

He also said to swim to the flag once, and then to get out of the water and see how you feel.

Hypothermia is insidious. Euphoria proceeds the crash.

Another man said to touch finger to thumb while swimming. If you can do that, you don’t have hypothermia. Hypothermia is called the claw.

Another Dolphin Club member said that my ‘Ken” episode (Second session of hypothermic shock) was posted on line as a warning on the Dolphin Club Website. My name was not mentioned.

Spent the day in part in 1988.  (Journal review)

I came out in the Modesto Gay Bars in June. A boyfriend from Mendecino was with me.

I had forgotten all that.

And, the circle Sparkler dance we did around John Hickman on his 31st and last birthday.

Naked bicyclists were just past Jefferson turnout near the Dolphine club as I returned to my car to get my swim suit today.

Aquatic Park. I Loved it!

Later, some of them were near the Twin Peaks Bar on the Castro with nothing on!

Four guys walking up Market Street to the Twin Peaks called it “the crystal coffin” which they said that the Peaks deserved.

End of entry

Note:

This entry is a “day in the life’ entry.

I’m a member of the Dolphin Club in San Fransisco. The Dolphin Club is located on Jefferson Street. It is an ocean swimming and rowing club.

Hypothermic shock occurs when , due to over exposure to cold water, your core body temperature drops below 95 degrees. Your hands can freeze in a claw position. Your heart slows and can stop. You can die. 

Aquatic Park is a small bay Across the street from Ghirardelli’s in San Francisco, Ca. There are a series of buoys across the bay. The last one has a flag. The Dolphin Club sits at the western end of the bay. A swim from the club beach to the flag and back is about one half mile.

John Hickman was a gay man that I met through Aids support Hand to Hand in Sacramento. John had Aids and eventually died of it. Most likely a group of we Hand to Hand volunteers did a circle dance around him with sparklers on his last birthday.

Before Aids, John had been an extremely good looking man. He was from Michigan.

The Twin Peaks is a bar at Market and Castro Streets in San Fransisco. It’s where I met my partner Jim in 1997. Older gay men tend to be the main clientele, thus the nick name “crystal coffin."

My Mendocino boyfriend was a little older than me and lived in Mendocino. I drove up there and stayed with him one time. He apparently came to see me in Modesto and we went out to the bars in 1988. I haven’t heard from him in decades.

#journaling #writing #gay relationship #open water swimming #Dolphin Club #Hypothermic shock #naked bicyclists #9/24/2022 #Aids #Aids support #Aquatic park

[njbice]

A little painting from the brand new Francisco Park.

I'm playing with really zooming in and picking a small view to paint. I'm using a 1" viewfinder.

#art #gouache #san francisco #gouache painting #architecture #plein air #aquatic Park

[clairity-org]

Aquatic Park, San Francisco 4/24/22 by Sharon Mollerus

#Bay #California #Aquatic Park #San Francisco #pier #CA #flickr

[lilgnomefella]

Another Mattel Jurassic World Fossil Fighters repaint. This time it's plesio. Super happy with how this one turned out. I have always loved thr stary design that this particular vivosaur has. As always I hate working with yellows.

#fossil fighters #fossil fighters champions #repaint #not dinosaurs #reptiles #aquatic reptiles #plesiosaur #vallejo paint #vivosaur #mattel jurassic world #jurassic park #jurassic world #my art

[angelnumber27]

#mine #nature #wetlands #sunshine #water #park #upload #green #plants #aquatic plants #aesthetic #naturecore #wet lands

[mad-prophet-of-the-airwaves]

Rest in peace, Michael Gambon (1940-2023).

#michael gambon #rest in peace #the cook the thief his wife and her lover #gosford park #path to war #the life aquatic with steve zissou #harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban #harry potter and the goblet of fire #emma #harry potter and the deathly hallows - part 1 #harry potter and the deathly hallows - part 2

[adam-trademark]

Ducks

(February 9, 2022)

#2022 #Afternoon #Aquatic #Bird #Birds #Day #Daytime #Duck #Duck Photography #Ducks #February #February 2022 #Mallard #Mallard Duck #My Photo #My Photography #My Pic #My Picture #Nature #Outdoors #Park #Photo #Photography #Pic #Picture #Reflection #Reflections #Water #Water Reflection #Water Reflections

[nickysfacts]

Nothosaurus: “I know I have the body but of a strong and swift reptile; but I have the heart and stomach of a fish!👑

🦎🌊

#history #nothosaurus #reptile #jurassic world #jw #camp cretaceous #prehistoric animals #extinct #fossils #paleontology #jurassic world camp cretaceous #jurassic park fan #plesiosaur #triassic #aquatic reptiles #extinct animals #prehistoric #nickys facts

[crudlynaturephotos]

#arrowhead #sagittaria #water lilies #lotus #nymphea #lily pads #aquatic plants #lily pond #balboa park #san diego

[josefksays]

Happy Birthday Jeff Goldblum - October 22

#Jeff Goldblum #birthday #appreciation post #actors #directors #Jurassic Park #Independence Day #The Fly #The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou #The Grand Budapest Hotel #Adam Ressurrected #Into the Night #Earth Girls Are Easy #Thor: Ragnarok #Silverado #The Big Chill #The Lost World: Jurassic Park #my edits

[smollnekoo]

Green zone 🌱☀️

#green #cat #white cat #park #garden #trees #wood #ninfea #loto #plants #aquatic plants #nature #garden aesthetic #gardencore #green color #naturecore #aesthetic #animals #cute #sunny #summer #botanic #leafes #art #kawaii #june #july #season #farmcore #gardening

[size-two-shrimp]

Thinking about my animal park building childhood game now

#marine park empire for anyone curious #its on steam but im not paying $7 for it #dont get me wrong i love that game but also it kinda fucking sucks hgdfkjghdkj #or maybe i was just shit at it when i was 10 or whatever #but still #apparently the aquatic zookeepers just. dont feed the animals if that gives you an idea of how bad it is LMAO

[remembertheplunge]

The gym, the pool and open water swimming

1/15/2023. Sunday 9;22pm

Went swimming in the gym’s pool. It’s a different experience than open water swimming. It’s warm water and I can see where I’m going. It’s true swimming.

Open water swimming is an experience. It’s a cold water gauntlet. It expands the being. And, its participants are brothers.

The gym is the court house without the lawyer drag. Sometimes kind, sometimes harsh and competitive. The body doesn’t know. It craves the movement. It wants to thrive.

End of entry

Note:  3/2/2024

Open water swimming is, in my case, swimming in the Ocean in Aquatic Park in San Fransisco, California.

I’m 68 and in the gym twice a day and the ocean once a week most of the time.

The water in the Ocean in Aquatic Park is murky enough that it’s hard to see where you are going. The water temperature now I think is in the low 50 degrees. I swam about a half mile in Aquatic park earlier today. Before the swim, I did leg extensions and the rowing machine at a gym in Manteca, California. After the swim, I did 35 minutes on the treadmill at a gym in Modesto, California.

I’m a criminal defense attorney and am in court most week days.

#1/15/2023 #open water swimming #pool swimming #working out in the gym at age 68 #open water swimmers are brothers #Aquatic Park San Fransisco #Ca #The body wants to thrive #Criminal defense attorney #elder fitness

[tiedsh0es]

headcanon that plants are a mismash of a lot of different animals dna- and ONE! One of those is an axolotl.

#cuz ONE they kind of look like one and TWO it was added in so plants wld heal a lot faster #also axolotls are aquatic and I think of plants as aquatic #trigun #headcanon #talking #thinking abt this like jurrasic park dna bc idk how it works

[abbenai]

whats with antidepressants making me overheat faster. its bullshit and im tired of it as someone who works outside

#thankfully i mostly do aquatics now but if i was still at the park.. god help my mortal soul #words words words

[gabi-trollastic]

Troll Music Aquatic Park

@happyqueenandgrumpydork *In Trollstopia, it was the inauguration of the new aquatic park where had many slides and pools based on music leader kingdoms.*

#troll music aquatic park