arrived for the meeting in Stresa we consult all first on the situation of the various stages of scratches left behind by last week, especially on the neck and toes and we console during the week that we were able to cure ourselves as best physical problems. There is already waiting for the boat
Carabinieri escort us to the third stage, which should not present major technical complexities because the stretch of coast that we will face the traffic of vessels is generally very low.
We counted and there are only 6, but also enthusiastic in front of the stage long before us, because the distance is 6 km of new theoretical, and therefore in reality more. The usual starting
unleashed shelling us immediately along the coast and I harbor as usual just below the bank to make my observations of the bottom, fish and algae, also because I could not even wanting to swim off the coast is still swimming in deep water because I always create a degree of apprehension, because it is much more difficult swim straight without some visual reference. Then
because otherwise I get bored.
seems strange, but in a dip that can last 3 hours if there are significant differences, which for me are usually represented by meetings with some interesting fish, the movement becomes mechanical, and if before my eyes there is only the green deep dark water, the mind has time to sweep up all the thoughts that a door behind you, from the most beautiful in the most obsessive.
But I realize that men are continually cues or situations that catch my attention em'incuriosiscono could swim indefinitely and the time passes without that I never get bored in this liquid world that, as even only just a little below the water surface, is a completely different world, a parallel planet.
Returning to our stage, the first long stretch after Stresa not reserve any surprise, the collection consists of a very gently sloping expanse of pebbles, no fish except a few small goby or any dog \u200b\u200bthat moves from stone to stone.
In this long desert moon occasionally appear groups of rocks, sometimes they are large blocks of granite certainly dragged away by glacial erosion, are sometimes rather large residual structures of the shale cliffs making up the entire side and I remember well you could see in the paintings of Carcano Gignous and set on the coast of Stresa.
At one point I also see a pile of granite blocks piled up, worked perfectly, probably evidence of an ancient shipwreck of a boat.
turning point after the south coast begins to deepen and coming close to the site Vidoli begin to see a bit 'of fish, some chub, roach and perch sun on the beach front restaurant in San Giovanni 2 m depth of a water snake hunting under rocks with his head stuck in it and most of the body.
I would like to time his sleep apnea but I doubt that will last maybe a half hour or more and I can not wait that long, or when I get to Belgirate my friends have eaten all the pizza.
Some old dock with the rusty gate open toward the lake I try and intimidate me with fear of the dark because the sun is always coming from the ancestral.
I still swim with a rapid pace along sometimes discontinuous short stretches of reeds and discovered with surprise that grow easily from the base consisting of pebbles, while I thought that their habitat was only the soft sandy bottom.
finally passed the dock of the Villa Dal Pozzo d'Hanno and then coming in sight of the first buildings of Belgirate.
There is repeated the surprise that I had before Baveno, because the works carried out on the lake to build the marina and the arches in front of Villa Carlotta, based on granite boulders sunk in bulk are a wonderful refuge for many fish, dart frantic when I arrived fleeing from their burrows.
It seems to be at sea and you'd imagine to see in the ravines grouper, sea bream, bream, but also with our beautiful lake fish.
A bank were planted willow trees that have caught on very well and their aquatic roots, thick and red, sprout from the bottom among the Saxons, moving with the waves as if they were sea anemones. Check-in lakefront
until Belgirate aquatic plants here and in long rows that rise from the bottom drops steeply to a sandy stretch, it is likely that the fact of having made the enlargement of the lake in front of the country over large piles of cement blocks, without creating a continuous wall, spared the bottom part of the same characteristics as the original crown and vegetation before.
We go out of the water and the mayor received us with the Assessor Conelli Professor Hill with a friendly acceptance based of delicious pizza, pies, chips, etc.. that we are welcomed with gratitude the kind retailers and restaurateurs in the country which all contribute to this reception for us athletes.
Today we are not so many but so hungry that even with the help of the police team also coming up to escort the supplies end up including all the cakes for 3 of us who have birthdays today. Today the same tasks simultaneously
fact the years both my wife and I, we were born the same day of the same year!, And the new friend of Intra, Clare Carey, a teacher at Cobianchi, constrained to a wheelchair by a progressive disease, but undaunted and enthusiastic, which brought us in the boat near Belgirate became boldly deploying and pull with a buoy to the finish.
Another stage is over, we salute you for the next day, those who jump in the car, some in small boat, probably all ready to go for a well deserved afternoon siesta!
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