Swim in Kelso Lake (Milton Tri location)

Today I packed the family up and we went to the beach at Kelso Park in Milton. I ended up having a very pleasant OWS.  In case you're doing the Tri there next week here is a 'water update'...

The water is very warm compared to last year so I only used my DeSoto 'bib-john' and was plenty warm - there were quite a few people swimming with no wetsuit.

The water colour is something halfway between chocolate milk and urine. Strangely, it kinda smells and tastes that way as well. There was quite a bit of loose stringy water weed - nothing that would interfere with a swim but don't get spooked if a string gets wrapped around your arm.

In case you want to go have a practice swim - it's $5/per person to enter the park and the beach is located on the SW end on the lake. The beach is segregated by a long buoy line - if you swim just outside the line its approx. 200m from end to end (see photo below).