decidedlyodd

I met up with Larry, Terry, Billy and Issac for brunch on Sunday morning at Martin’s. As usual, the food was good but the service was very slow. After eating, several of us decided it would be a good day for the beach. I went home to change and pick up beach necessities like sunblock before meeting up with the guys at Madison Park Beach on Lake Washington. It was a beautiful day to be out in the sun and splashing in the water.

The beach isn’t terribly large–basically a strip of grass against the shore of the lake. The northern third or so was almost entirely filled with gay men (i.e., guys wearing speedos). Clearly, this was the place to be on a sunny Sunday afternoon. We stuck around for about 2 hours or so, swimming around in the water, watching the ducks and of course watching guys in skimpy swimsuits. All in all a very nice activity for a beautiful day.

I got a couple of pictures. The day was clear enough to see Rainier:

At some point, these ducks came by ostensibly looking for food:

There was also a floating dock out in the middle of the swimming area with some diving boards:

I went out there at one point and jumped off. There were a number of people swimming laps towards the back end of the swimming area. I might try that out some time in the future. Apparently, it’s about 120 yards long and of course open water with small waves from passing boats.