Swimming in Lake Huron in October

Today was in the 80s again so, instead of going apple picking or to the pumpkin patch like we originally had planned, we went swimming. Joey has been asking about swimming in this warm weather, but the pools are closed, so we went up to Port Huron. There were so many people there swimming it looked like a summer day. The water was still pretty warm too. Another weird thing was that the water was so low - there was a big sandbar actually sticking out of the lake. The kids were all playing on it and Joey had so much fun finding rocks to take over there to build a pile.