Swimming thread

[Mikey]

Getting so nice outside today was reminiscing about the old day's when I wasn't too lazy to go swimming.

I used to mostly swim at the Jersey Shore (Sandy Hook) ... also in the local creek (or as we say crick)

We used to have a pool at the house (growing up) but it was only a 3-1/2 ft deep junkie one.

So, where do you swim ?

[toys2cool]

no where.. i can't swim

[Mikey]

no where.. i can't swim

D, you're in Miami and can't swim ?????????

[wilbs518]

My grandparents and my aunt had pools. We would go to a lot of different state parks with beaches on a lake, too. Everyone in the neighborhood would go swimming in the Mohawk river since we lived where the Hudson and Mohawk rivers meet.

[Zemo]

no where.. i can't swim

[BlackKnight]

no where.. i can't swim

Don't you live in the wrong state for that ???

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

I have a pool out back, as do most of my siblings, and I have the ocean about 8 houses down from me at the end of my street.

[Sideshow Spock]

As a little kid, I had a strong fear of water that was over my head. My parents would dump me off at the YMCA for swim lessons, and half the time I wouldn't even go. I'd just get my hair damp in the locker room and pretend I did. One time that I did go, another kid and I started to struggle in the deep end, and mass chaos ensued. This did not improve my attitude

Til this day I still have never swam in deep water. I love to swim laps and can do various strokes, but it's the treading water that does me in.

[Mikey]

.......................................... I have the ocean about 8 houses down from me at the end of my street.

Cat, don't you all have to worry about poison jelly fish and crocs ?

[ScottA]

Growing up on Air Force bases we swam at the base pool. Also swam in the Gulf and the Atlantic Ocean as well. When my oldest son was born my parents added a pool to the backyard. I swam there for 16 years until they moved to a new house.

[Mikey]

Til this day I still have never swam in deep water. I love to swim laps and can do various strokes, but it's the treading water that does me in.

Most people who are afraid of water don't realize that the human body floats.
Keeping your lungs full even helps more.

People that drown make themselves drown by struggling.

[ScottA]

I have a pool out back, as do most of my siblings, and I have the ocean about 8 houses down from me at the end of my street.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs504.snc3/26505_1386048580556_1512293169_30983917_722398_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._1901361_n.jpg

That is just too pretty Cat.

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

Cat, don't you all have to worry about poison jelly fish and crocs ?

I live in Sydney Mike, and there are no crocs roaming around there.

Occassionally there are sharks, but most beaches have shark nets. I once got some jelly fish stingers around my arms whilst surfing, but that's pretty unusual for my area. The crocs and jellyfish are mostly thousands of miles north. The jellyfish get so bad there you can't really go in the water in summer. Bleh.

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

That is just too pretty Cat.

I feel so blessed...the light makes it a different view each time I go there...so refreshing for the soul.

[BlackKnight]

Growing up on Air Force bases we swam at the base pool.

Air Force Brat here too.

Nice Pics Cat ...., If I had that, I dunno if I would ever Need a Job.