This sandy beach is open to the sun and sheltered from the wind, making it a favorite for East Bay locals. Lifeguards are posted during swim season, but you can swim any time at your own risk. Lake Temescal has an accessible beach house adjacent to the swim area which offers changing rooms, vending machines, and showers.
The swimming area is open spring through fall. When the swim area was constructed, a secondary dam was built to provide an inner swimming area complete with sandy beach. The swimming complex is open during warm months and has a lifeguard on duty.
There's a bathhouse, vending machines, and a 1. Most visitors say it's not the prettiest of beaches it's an old quarry , but the water is pretty warm since it's so far east. There's a bathhouse and a "snack shack" that has snacks, water, and toys for the kiddies. The lake's swim lagoon has a sandy beach with access to restrooms, a concession stand, and a lift into the pool. Swimming is allowed only when lifeguards are on duty.
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Map View. View as Map. Just be sure to pack your SPF. Read More. Visit Website. Veterans Memorial Beach. View this post on Instagram. Bass Lake. Baker Beach. Hamilton Pool. Mission Community Pool. Aquatic Park. Coffman Pool. Drownings usually occur when a less-experienced swimmer gets knocked down by a wave and sucked out to sea; the impulse is to fight the current and try to swim back to the beach, but that doesn't work.
The swimmer becomes exhausted, or panics, and can't stay afloat. Here is a brief film with footage of actual rip currents on an Australian beach. If you look closely, you can see a narrow stream of water heading away from the beach, even as the breakers are rolling in. As you can see, they're not easy to spot; and they are not always as obvious as the ones in the video. If you get pulled into a rip current, the best thing to do is stay calm and try to keep your head above water.
Rip currents are not undertows. The word "undertow" is now out of favor and no longer used "officially"; the current flows horizontally, so you are not pulled under water unless the beach is very steep.
Don't fight the current. Never try to swim back to shore against the current; that is usually when the drownings occur. If you can, swim at right angles to the current, parallel to the beach, to get yourself out of the current.
Once you are free of the current, swim toward the beach at a 45 degree angle away from the rip current so you don't drift back into it. If you can't swim out of the current, let it carry you out. The current will peter out at some point, past the breakers usually, and you can then swim parallel to the beach a little way and then head back to the beach at an angle away from the current.
If you see someone else has been caught in a rip current, shout out instructions for swimming out of the current and throw them a floating device of some kind if possible.
Be very careful about going into the current to save them, unless you are a strong swimmer and know what you are doing. Many have drowned trying to save others. Of course, the best thing is not to get pulled into a rip current in the first place. Beaches in San Francisco are not safe for swimming, and that goes double for Ocean Beach, which has the worst rip currents and most drownings. Here's a tempting mini-beach in a beautiful setting at the foot of the Cliff House , near Seal Rock.
Don't do it! The incoming tide could trap you there. Probably only at Aquatic Park near Fisherman's Wharf , where there is a wall or breakwater around most of the swimming area. And some people do swim at China Beach , though I wouldn't say it was particularly safe; there's a strong current flowing out to sea there. All residents were ordered to stay home, except for necessary trips to grocery stores and essential medical visits, and solo outdoor activities like hiking.
The city was gradually reopening of many businesses and activities, but in December, came under a strict, stay-at-home directive, due to a sudden increase in infection and hospitalization rates. Big changes arrived June 15, California is "fully reopened", meaning all business sectors will reopen to full or almost full capacity, including concerts, stadium sports and festivals. SF is basically open, though somewhat more cautious in some regards. Vaccine requirements: Starting August 20, , SF requires that all restaurants, bars, theaters and gyms check for proof of full vaccination.
See SF Chron article re: vaccination. Public transportation options had been cut back, but are expanding again. Seals, however, occasionally appear and can interact with swimmers.
Acknowledging that possibility, Bleul told newcomers about a seal nicknamed Homer, in keeping with the Odyssian theme. At the 9 a. If swimmers go off course, one of the flotilla vessels nudges them back. When Hurt received word of a Homer sighting, he pushed the boat to full throttle and headed south. He cut the engine and the boat drifted for a few minutes before Homer appeared briefly, about a half mile away, a bobbing head above the water, before disappearing under the surface.
Luckily, the tide kept coming in. Hurt checked the depth: 8 feet. When the tide is low, swimmers must enter the bay farther west, near the site of the former Lordships restaurant. Many Odyssey swimmers participate in these groups, too. Graham is a pool refugee and an open-water convert.
Before he started Odyssey, Wallace was disappointed to see that most Aquatic Park swimmers went back and forth between buoys, staying close to shore. She lives in the Bay Area and sometimes swims in Tomales Bay, as well as in lakes.
Bay swimmers often use such language to describe their move to the outdoors, when the pandemic threatened to make them feel the exact opposite. Back on land, on a synthetic lawn, a few took turns washing off saltwater with a hose shared with windsurfers and kayakers. In the parking lot, swimmers began a reverse pantomime: leaning against opened hatchbacks, they peeled off their wetsuits.
A global pandemic may have pushed swimmers out of chlorine and into saltwater, but most say this newfound activity is not some passing fad that will end with the scourge.
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