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56 degrees and swimming in Puget Sound

July 17, 2015 by Beth Shepherd

Average temperature of the water in Puget Sound is 56 degrees in July.

All wet in Gig Harbor

Swimming in Puget Sound is downright chilly, at any time of the year. Even in July, the average temperature is 56 degrees.

In Puget Sound up to her knees and ready for swimming

But that didn’t stop one 4-year-old from swimming in the waters off Gig Harbor.

Getting ready

Granted, by the time she was fully wet…

Dunking

…and had splashed around for fifteen minutes or so, she confessed to feeling a little bit cold.

Splashing

With teeth chattering and lips turning blue one little girl headed for dry land. Her mama suspects her motivation to get out of the water may have been due to the really cool rope swing hanging from a tree over the sand. The perfect place to dry off.

Rope swing at the beach

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