For the past month plus I have been swimming in Long Island Sound.  Yes it is between 48 and 55 degrees.  Yes most of the time I find it difficult to find someone to go swimming with me.  Yes I know that it is not smart to be swimming a mile off shore solo in these conditions.  But it is SOO great not to be in the indoors.  My 1st time in L.I.S. in 2010 - it was so cold I swam out to an island and had to sit in the sun like a seal to warm myself.  The second time out I got what I diagnosed as Sea Lice.  I had these red dots all over my body.  The best was this weekend when I swam roughly half mile out in the fog and found myself between 2 fishing boats.  Six fisher men with rods and bait and little oldf me right in the center of the feeding grounds.  Not an ideal spot for a swimmer.  I can not tell u how many Shark Week episodes went thru my head.  But even with all these issues it still is so much better than beaing stuck indoors.  Welcome Summer time!