> > How cool do you mean by "cool"? It's not exactly boiling, but I > > discovered the hard way in the Gulf (swimming at Port Aransas) that the > > way I knew I ought to come out of the water was that I'd be getting > > cold, and that little warning system didn't work there. (It works a > > *heck* of a lot better in Maine!) > > > What time of year was it? > > The gulf is pretty warm from mid june to september (or later in warm years). > > xponent > Gulf Stream Maru > rob
I worked out on the gulf for two years. We used to go swimming, sometimes every day. (It's weird when you know that the bottom is one MILE away.) Anyway the water was never as warm as the west branch of the Susquehanna is in the middle of summer, when it's been low for a few weeks. But on the flip side whenever we were on the beach it was too stormy or cold to go swimming in the surf so I don't know what it was like at say Galvaston. Kevin T. Life during wartime
