The Boston side of the Charles River Watershed...

[dontpanicbobby]

is no longer swimmable. Toxic Algae.
Damn!

 

[Unforgiven]

Happens all the time to various bodies of water in the summer when you have weeks longs stretches of hot weather. The good news is that nowadays public swimming areas are tested daily unlike when I was a kid and swam in that crap.

 

[Dannydet]

@Unforgiven
eschew obfuscation....
Love it!

 

[olbriar]

I was in middle school when I fist went swimming in a pool. It was freaky seeing my feet under the water. I grew up swimming in the muddy creek. I survived.... true, I'm far from normal, but I survived.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Public pools are always cool

 

[olbriar]

 

[dontpanicbobby]

The pool was on the left bank in Boston. Cambridge still has beaches.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

The Charles River Watershed Association something has been postponed cause of Covid-19.

 

[mikedt]

The Charles River Watershed Association something has been postponed cause of Covid-19.

Massachusetts: Last one out, please be sure the door is locked.

And unlike the Bee Gees song, I'm not going back to Massachusetts.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Why not? @mikedt. You're not old enough to remember the proscriptions.
OT: I thought you were from England dude?

 

[Bearsyzf]

Every time we have a bad rain down here all the crap from the Tiajauna river pollutes our beaches , we end up having to stay out of the water for about a week after.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Where are those beaches?

 

[Bearsyzf]

I'm in San Diego, it pollutes our Imperial Beach, which is the closet to it.

 

[mikedt]

I'm in San Diego, it pollutes our Imperial Beach, which is the closet to it.

I did see a news report that California is also under a state of emergency for Covid-19. Things like travel restrictions, large public gatherings banned, etc.

 

[mikedt]

Why not? @mikedt. You're not old enough to remember the proscriptions.
OT: I thought you were from England dude?

Yes I am. But I've spent 30+ years living in Asia.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Asia is huge.

 

[Bearsyzf]

Yeah, they locking up California .... My buddy just got back he's a Fisherman in Alaska and he said he felt safer trapped on the boat out there lol

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Boston Fishermen fish out of the US zone.
International waters.

 

[Bearsyzf]

They fish out of Anchorage and Dutch Harbor.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Left coast reasoning.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Steward's Folly was worth it.