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[Serissia]

cmessaz wrote...
I am terrified of swimming in the ocean.

Because of the wretched sand/seaweed in your bathing suit or for another reason?  Swimming in the ocean up here is pretty anticlimatic.  There's no strange tropical fish or anything.  Every once in a great while there will be a shark alert but I can't remember any shark attacks in RI during my life span. 

[Skadi_the_Evil_Elf]

cmessaz wrote...

Serissia wrote...

cmessaz wrote...
Summer means stay indoors for my family, unless we are going swimming.

I don't even want to think about swimming.  My father still wants me to go on some insane clam dive and it has not been consistantly warm enough here to warm the ocean.

I am terrified of swimming in the ocean.

I love it. Especially at night. Under a full moon.

I like right near the Mediterranean Sea. Most beaches are unfit to swim, but there's a couple that are nice. They celebrate St. John's night on the Summer Solstice, where everyone jumps into the sea to wash away their sins and lights bonfires all up the coast.

It's the only holiday I like in this country.

[cmessaz]

Serissia wrote...

cmessaz wrote...
I am terrified of swimming in the ocean.

Because of the wretched sand/seaweed in your bathing suit or for another reason?  Swimming in the ocean up here is pretty anticlimatic.  There's no strange tropical fish or anything.  Every once in a great while there will be a shark alert but I can't remember any shark attacks in RI during my life span. 

Once I went swimming in the gulf of Mexico. My sister and I were carried far out by an undertow, my dad got to her but I almost drowned. I have never stepped foot in an ocean after that. I watched my father and sister swim at another beach, and they got out and no more than 2 minutes later we saw 3 sting rays swim by. Yeah, I am just scared of critters and undertow.

[Addai]

Yes, slow this morning.  I'm wondering why, on the days when you hope to just coast into a long weekend, all hell decides to break loose.  It's a given.

I was saving this for Ritual Dismemberment Tuesday, but it's never too early for Ali-decaps.  I forgot to strip him first, sorry.  This decap was blessed by the horns, at least.

Modifié par Addai67, 28 mai 2010 - 04:58 .

[Serissia]

cmessaz wrote...
Once I went swimming in the gulf of Mexico. My sister and I were carried far out by an undertow, my dad got to her but I almost drowned. I have never stepped foot in an ocean after that. I watched my father and sister swim at another beach, and they got out and no more than 2 minutes later we saw 3 sting rays swim by. Yeah, I am just scared of critters and undertow.

Yeah, there's nothing like that here.  You can pretty much jump in where ever.  I can only think of a couple of places that the current is bad and generally those places aren't open to the public.  The only problem w/ the waters here is they're almost black.  Even with the sun shining down directly into the water I wouldn't say you can see more than 3'. 

My Nana lives up the hill from the coast line and we always used the private beach instead of going to the big city beaches.  I haven't been to a beach in years though.  Direct sunlight bothers me greatly. 

[cmessaz]

Nice decap shot!

[LadyDamodred]

cmessaz wrote...

Serissia wrote...

cmessaz wrote...
Summer means stay indoors for my family, unless we are going swimming.

I don't even want to think about swimming.  My father still wants me to go on some insane clam dive and it has not been consistantly warm enough here to warm the ocean.

I am terrified of swimming in the ocean.

O.o  Why?  it's awesome, especially when there are fun waves.  You should totally try it!

[Addai]

cmessaz wrote...

Nice decap shot!

Here's the wind-up.



It's funny, I paused the game and set up the shot while the bad guy still had his head on because I just knew Ali was going to deliver.  It's like decap mind-meld or something.

[LadyDamodred]

cmessaz wrote...
Once I went swimming in the gulf of Mexico. My sister and I were carried far out by an undertow, my dad got to her but I almost drowned. I have never stepped foot in an ocean after that. I watched my father and sister swim at another beach, and they got out and no more than 2 minutes later we saw 3 sting rays swim by. Yeah, I am just scared of critters and undertow.

I probably should have kept reading, huh?  Glad you're okay.  Like Seri said, nothign freaky animal-wise up here, thoguh seaweed does freak me out.  Undertow is fine as long as you know how to break out of it.  Swim parallel to the beach!  Parallel!

[Serissia]

LadyDamodred wrote...
I probably should have kept reading, huh?  Glad you're okay.  Like Seri said, nothign freaky animal-wise up here, thoguh seaweed does freak me out.  Undertow is fine as long as you know how to break out of it.  Swim parallel to the beach!  Parallel!

Oh god... the seaweed.  Argh... the stringy kind w/ the weird pods on it freaks me out the most.

[Lady Jess]

Serissia wrote...

LadyDamodred wrote...
I probably should have kept reading, huh?  Glad you're okay.  Like Seri said, nothign freaky animal-wise up here, thoguh seaweed does freak me out.  Undertow is fine as long as you know how to break out of it.  Swim parallel to the beach!  Parallel!

Oh god... the seaweed.  Argh... the stringy kind w/ the weird pods on it freaks me out the most.

Undertow and Jelly Fish freak me out. I went to VA Beach one summer, and was standing ankle deep in the waves, and suddenly I was much further from the beach than I started. I love the beach though. Well, I would if it was visible...I like walking in the edge of the water, watching the waves, finding sand dollars and shells, and photographing everything.

[Lady Jess]

This is what we see when we go out to the WA coast..

[Serissia]

Lady Jess wrote...
Undertow and Jelly Fish freak me out. I went to VA Beach one summer, and was standing ankle deep in the waves, and suddenly I was much further from the beach than I started. I love the beach though. Well, I would if it was visible...I like walking in the edge of the water, watching the waves, finding sand dollars and shells, and photographing everything.

I haven't been to VA Beach myself but my mate says it's nice.  Nicer than the ones in RI. 

My Grandfather is kind of a local legend as far as fisherman go.  He built all of his boats from scratch and always had the largest catches.  I grew up having to do heinous fish related things like catch horseshoe crabs while they were mating.  I'm pretty sure that's probably against the law now.

To this day I still think spider crabs are the grossest thing ever.

[TotoroTori]

Lady Jess wrote...

This is what we see when we go out to the WA coast..

It maybe cloudy but I like the photo's still, my favorite one is the second one.

[Lady Jess]

TotoroTori wrote...

Lady Jess wrote...

This is what we see when we go out to the WA coast..

It maybe cloudy but I like the photo's still, my favorite one is the second one.

Heh thanks! Just once though I'd like to see sun and sand out there. But Alas, I'm told "welcome to the pacific northwest". This time next year I'll be in GA though, I think my luck might improve.

[Serissia]

Lady Jess wrote...
Heh thanks! Just once though I'd like to see sun and sand out there. But Alas, I'm told "welcome to the pacific northwest". This time next year I'll be in GA though, I think my luck might improve.

When I was in Atlanta it was very clear and sunny. 

[Serissia]

Horseshoe Crab smecks!

[MelRedux]

Lady D, since I remade Mel for my PC version, she doesn't look like Lya anymore

[Lady Jess]

Serissia wrote...

Lady Jess wrote...
Undertow and Jelly Fish freak me out. I went to VA Beach one summer, and was standing ankle deep in the waves, and suddenly I was much further from the beach than I started. I love the beach though. Well, I would if it was visible...I like walking in the edge of the water, watching the waves, finding sand dollars and shells, and photographing everything.

I haven't been to VA Beach myself but my mate says it's nice.  Nicer than the ones in RI. 

My Grandfather is kind of a local legend as far as fisherman go.  He built all of his boats from scratch and always had the largest catches.  I grew up having to do heinous fish related things like catch horseshoe crabs while they were mating.  I'm pretty sure that's probably against the law now.

To this day I still think spider crabs are the grossest thing ever.

Gahhhhh...I can handle crabs but thats definitely creepy! We have dungeness up here, they aren't bad at all to look at. I found a baby one.

[TotoroTori]

Lady Jess wrote...



Heh thanks! Just once though I'd like to see sun and sand out there. But Alas, I'm told "welcome to the pacific northwest". This time next year I'll be in GA though, I think my luck might improve.

In Georgia?A state above me! if it is I think it will improve greatly and a great photgraphy place is Cumberland Island; I should show you the photo's I took there about a year ago.

But Georgia has some nice beaches and interesting locations and a bunch of small towns



Edit: I maybe a Cancer but I hate crabs; they pinch me all the time on the beach ><

Modifié par TotoroTori, 28 mai 2010 - 05:23 .

[Lady Jess]

Serissia wrote...

Lady Jess wrote...
Heh thanks! Just once though I'd like to see sun and sand out there. But Alas, I'm told "welcome to the pacific northwest". This time next year I'll be in GA though, I think my luck might improve.

When I was in Atlanta it was very clear and sunny. 

We'll be on the GA/Alabama border, so it is a road trip but not a bad one to the FL panhandle (Where the military has a resort...woot!) or the eastern GA coast. Cannot. Wait. Ohhh not to mention the big ren fest, that should be awesome with camera in hand.

[SurelyForth]

My mom grew up on the Florida panhandle and her father was a competitive fisherman, so she spent most of her childhood and adsolescence in and on the ocean. It was her favorite thing to talk about when we were kids, swimming and fishing and riding the waves.

She was horribly disappointed when she finally got her three grown ass children to the Gulf and we were all too scared to go out any further than ankle deep*, even though the water was a clear as day and incredibly calm. We finally relented after several days, but then we saw some nurse sharks and spent the rest of our vacation burying each other in the sand while she relived her childhood alone in the water.

*Really, it's her fault for raising us in a landlocked state.

Modifié par SurelyForth, 28 mai 2010 - 05:25 .

[Lady Jess]

TotoroTori wrote...

Lady Jess wrote...



Heh thanks! Just once though I'd like to see sun and sand out there. But Alas, I'm told "welcome to the pacific northwest". This time next year I'll be in GA though, I think my luck might improve.

In Georgia?A state above me! if it is I think it will improve greatly and a great photgraphy place is Cumberland Island; I should show you the photo's I took there about a year ago.

But Georgia has some nice beaches and interesting locations and a bunch of small towns

I'm very excited, we'll be in a great location. The great smoky mountains aren't far, the beaches are a road trip but well worth it, the Ren Fest in the spring time, Gone With the Wind sites, Civil War history (tons of it just on Ft Benning alone), We were soldiers was shot where I'll be living...bounces!!

[LadyDamodred]

Mel_Redux wrote...

Lady D, since I remade Mel for my PC version, she doesn't look like Lya anymore

I can tell you how to fix that. 

Seri: OMG, YES!  That seaweed!  *shudders*  And I hate steeping in seaweed beds.  Ugh.  It's revolting.

[mellifera]

I'd rather just look at the ocean... I freaked myself out when I was younger watching documentaries about all the scarry sh!t you can get attacked by in the ocean and I never wanted to go back in again.

Plus, just thinking about jellyfish makes my stomach turn, if one ever got near me IRL I'd probably drop dead from terror and disgust right there... yeah, rather skip out on the beach vacations, thanks xD

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Modifié par yukidama, 28 mai 2010 - 05:31 .