Swimming is swimming. But I guess a natural body of water over a pool. Last year we swam in the Kickapoo river. Last time I was near the ocean it was too cold to swim so I used the resort's pool.
Is anybody else creeped out by lakes? Most of them have water that is just... there. Nothing goes in, nothing goes out except by rain or evaporation...
@roque aren’t those technically ponds? AFAIK, lakes are tied to the water table. Water table underground gets depleted? Lake goes down. Spring feeding lake gets blocked or diverted? Lake dies.
Read up on the Salton Sea some time if you’re not familiar with it. CA used up so much of our native water table, what was a thriving inland sea turned into a toxic borderline ghost town in a few decades. The stench in summer is epic.
Hanniam, the Salton Sea was an accident dating back to 1905. This is long but see the second paragraph for details of that accidental beginning: https://allthatsinteresting.com/salton-sea-history
Grown up on lake, but on clean, see to the bottom days, my heaven!...no weedy or stagnant waters!
Never been swimming in a river. Jaws destroyed oceans for me...i love the beauty and sounds, but, more than a little cautious wading or snorkeling gets me spooked.
Love a swimming pool, especially now with salt water instead of chlorine.
NOT the lake! So creepy. If the ocean takes you then it's kind of understandable but the lake? Embarrassing. No reason to die in a lake by anything other than your own fault or some lake monster that they'll never be able to prove existed so they'll blame it on you.
They're horse flies I think. We just call them cleggs. It's not too bad now, I think I got the vinegar on it in time. I just plet my dog out to do his stuff and it was a beautiful late evening twilight. Normally they're out in the day but this must have been a stealth bastard or something.
We live on an awesome lake, fed by a long river, but I gotta' admit, in the shallows you have to watch out for snapping turtles, so that's no fun if you have little kids wanting to swim. Also in the shallows where any plant life is are leeches. The kayaking is great and there's tons of water to help put out the bonfire after beers and 'smores with the neighbors. Not gonna' lie, lake life is a great way to live!
I lived on a lake my whole (earlier) life, which I loved but it was too cold for any real swimming. Some of the bays and inlets along the shoreline were okay though.
I do have to say, I've swam in the ocean a couple of times and I absolutely loved it.
We have a couple of very large, crystal clear lakes here in the Midwest - you can see your toes when in the water. I prefer one of these lakes! NOT lake of the ozarks - which is literally mucky green / brown and every summer ecoli alerts go out.. If I can't be at / in Table Rock Lake, then it's the pool... and no way a public pool...
Spring-fed lake. They are clear and clean. regular lakes get all green in the summer. yuck. Rivers not so much. Used to float one in Oklahoma in the summer until it was revealed that water moccasins lived in the fallen wood near the shore, and that chicken guts were thrown in upstream. Ocean okay for wading.
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ReplyDeleteT.hanks in advance.
Tom Hanks
DeleteNone of the above. But ocean if forced to.
ReplyDeleteAll of the above!
DeleteOcean
Lake
River
Pool.
Wish I could right now ... stuck in Puerto Rico at airport for next 4 hours:(( Always delays here
Pool.
ReplyDeleteBecause Sharks can't survive in chlorinated water.
=)
Pool. Preferably my own
ReplyDeletePrivate pool, then ocean.
ReplyDeleteDo yourself a favor and stay out of freshwater places, f*cking disgusting all the sh!t living in there not to mention the pollution.
River
ReplyDeleteSwimming is swimming. But I guess a natural body of water over a pool. Last year we swam in the Kickapoo river. Last time I was near the ocean it was too cold to swim so I used the resort's pool.
ReplyDeleteA Great Lake!
ReplyDeleteWhat do you get when you cross an Iranian and a Mexican?
ReplyDeleteOil of Ol'e.
Saltwater pool.
ReplyDeleteGood call!
DeleteBest of all worlds 99% of the time.
DeleteGrew up by the beach and used to prefer the ocean, until almost drowning in a riptide 8 years ago. So now I prefer the pool.
ReplyDeleteIs anybody else creeped out by lakes? Most of them have water that is just... there. Nothing goes in, nothing goes out except by rain or evaporation...
ReplyDelete@roque aren’t those technically ponds? AFAIK, lakes are tied to the water table. Water table underground gets depleted? Lake goes down. Spring feeding lake gets blocked or diverted? Lake dies.
DeleteRead up on the Salton Sea some time if you’re not familiar with it. CA used up so much of our native water table, what was a thriving inland sea turned into a toxic borderline ghost town in a few decades. The stench in summer is epic.
Hanniam, the Salton Sea was an accident dating back to 1905. This is long but see the second paragraph for details of that accidental beginning:
Deletehttps://allthatsinteresting.com/salton-sea-history
All of the above. That said, some are better than others.
ReplyDeleteYou know the way we have flippers on the end of our arms and legs?
ReplyDeleteNo?
Doesn't that tell you something?
Stay out of that stuff.
A private pool that no children have access to.
ReplyDeleteOcean or Infinity Pool
ReplyDeletelakes are creepy indeed
ReplyDeleteLake, river, ocean, pool...
ReplyDeleteSalt water pool. I love the ocean but prefer to swim in hygienic water.
ReplyDeleteGrown up on lake, but on clean, see to the bottom days, my heaven!...no weedy or stagnant waters!
ReplyDeleteNever been swimming in a river. Jaws destroyed oceans for me...i love the beauty and sounds, but, more than a little cautious wading or snorkeling gets me spooked.
Love a swimming pool, especially now with salt water instead of chlorine.
Candy, you rock!😁
ReplyDeleteArgh!!
ReplyDeleteClegg season now in full swing here. Just got bitten by one of the wee bastards ten minutes ago out the back!
Hurts like buggery now. Might have a pretty sore swollen arm in the morn. Just washed it with vinegar and then Sudocrem. Sudocrem is the tits!
Jesus I can't wait for winter now. And wasp season hadn't arrived yet. Goodammit, it's meant to be wet here in summer!!!
NOT the lake! So creepy. If the ocean takes you then it's kind of understandable but the lake? Embarrassing. No reason to die in a lake by anything other than your own fault or some lake monster that they'll never be able to prove existed so they'll blame it on you.
ReplyDeletePool. Lake for skiing. Ocean kayaking. River:No.I was almost taken by one in a split second.
ReplyDeleteFlashy-- what is a clegg? I'm picturing small, winged Sandor Cleganes attacking you. No bueno!
ReplyDeleteIt actually feels like it might have been.
ReplyDeleteThey're horse flies I think. We just call them cleggs. It's not too bad now, I think I got the vinegar on it in time. I just plet my dog out to do his stuff and it was a beautiful late evening twilight. Normally they're out in the day but this must have been a stealth bastard or something.
We live on an awesome lake, fed by a long river, but I gotta' admit, in the shallows you have to watch out for snapping turtles, so that's no fun if you have little kids wanting to swim. Also in the shallows where any plant life is are leeches. The kayaking is great and there's tons of water to help put out the bonfire after beers and 'smores with the neighbors. Not gonna' lie, lake life is a great way to live!
ReplyDeleteLake or river. Chlorine effs with my hair and salt water is cold and makes me itch.
ReplyDeletePool.
ReplyDeleteMy pool.
Ocean? sharks
ReplyDeleteLake? Leeches/gators
River? gators
Pool for me, now.
I lived on a lake my whole (earlier) life, which I loved but it was too cold for any real swimming. Some of the bays and inlets along the shoreline were okay though.
ReplyDeleteI do have to say, I've swam in the ocean a couple of times and I absolutely loved it.
We have a couple of very large, crystal clear lakes here in the Midwest - you can see your toes when in the water. I prefer one of these lakes! NOT lake of the ozarks - which is literally mucky green / brown and every summer ecoli alerts go out.. If I can't be at / in Table Rock Lake, then it's the pool... and no way a public pool...
ReplyDeleteGod bless y’all that can navigate rivers expertly! Oceans, I won’t get in above waist deep. The currents of both have carried me away. I like my pool!
ReplyDeleteLake
ReplyDeletePool
Ocean
River
Spring-fed lake. They are clear and clean.
ReplyDeleteregular lakes get all green in the summer. yuck.
Rivers not so much. Used to float one in Oklahoma in the summer until it was revealed that water moccasins lived in the fallen wood near the shore, and that chicken guts were thrown in upstream.
Ocean okay for wading.
Definitely ocean.
ReplyDeleteRivers
ReplyDeletetropical ocean. no rivers ever
ReplyDeleteFor actual swimming, pool.
ReplyDeleteFor floating and relaxing, ocean for sure.
Now I want to go to the beach!