This post is about a favourite activity of mine that I'm afraid the corona epidemic will force me to go without next summer. I hope the photos I took can convey our enjoyment of the balmy weather - except for the water temperature - we were enjoying that evening. This was made on June 6, which meant that the lake water was still quite cold. We didn't just play but went on a photo shoot together on the beach. Good times. I hope this will be possible again in late summer 2020.
My opponent was thinking while I took this from the benches we were sitting on.
I took another one.
This is an even game against our local 1 dan. I'm white. Black died on the right - and in the corner because of a mistake.
I wanted to go swimming for the first time this year as I wrote in my earlier post today. We moved to the end of cape Ruoriniemi where there is a beach. The water was fucking cold. I just plunged into the water that felt ice cold compared to the air, the temperature of which was 30 C today. The water temperature must have been around 15 C.
This is the beach. There were other people at the beach, none of whom were swimming. One lady was standing ankle deep in the water looking at her phone. Pitiful. :)
After I was done "swimming" in the bone-chillingly cold water (the chilling effect was welcome in the heat), we walked to the tip of the cape where the are stone slabs suitable for sitting down and playing with a magnetic board. There were lots of boats and water jets around us.
Heat wave indeed. It's going to last until Saturday. Then it's going to get a few degrees cooler.
Even the dandelion seems to be feeling the heat.
The world will never run out of dandelions.
After shortly discussing various topics we left before sunset.
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Here's Maestro in the process of perfecting his shot.