Swimming

tha name no longre has any meaning to me

http://www.cngadget.cn/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/CreativeHotelBalconyPools6.jpg

One more. I'd love to just swim to the bottom of this one and look down

http://www.communityofsweden.com/Thumbnails/71/37271/3056_248070.jpg

For a second, I thought the woman in the second-to-last one was naked.

swimming-pool balcony whoa

"marco"
"pol-AIIIIIIEEEEEeeeeeeeee"

xp If she was naked, I would approve heartily.

"I'm mooning all of Insert Big City Here! Yeah!"

No mention in that Devil's Pool article on whether, or how many, people plunge to their deaths from being there. There's a similar situation in Yosemite here where people do die every year.

A tour guide died three years ago trying to save a stranded tourist, but by and large there haven't been many incidents given the number of people who go there.

jesus christ. the devil's pool photos make me anxious. i cannot go near ledges or things like that. the balcony pool looks fun though. i want one.

Isn't it probably time Victoria falls was re-named something African?

I second St. Georges. I haven't been for a few months though. It's like how I would imagine a communist baths though!

ILX fieldtrip, anyone?

http://cl.jroo.me/z3/7/m/F/d/a.aaa-Did-you-like-the-idea.jpg

where's that?

infinity pool??

why not put up a sign at devils pool "Look, every year some shithead fall off here and dies so dont swim here "

why not ever do anything

My god. I like looking at those pictures but I would definitely be weeing in the pool if I was there.

The mister can't swim. If he's in an ilxing phase at the moment I'll let him talk about that, though. It doesn't really make much difference, sadly, as although I adore swimming I have far too many hang-ups about wearing swimming costumes in public to ever even contemplate doing it these days. It was the only form of exercise I ever really liked, though.

maybe just don't do it drunk/stupid
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oh is that infinity pool in a hotel in hong kong or shanghai?

if you cannot swim proudly nood than you should nto swim at all - aquatic apes we are - with cloakas

pools in skyscrapers kind of seem scarier than victoria falls. i think i trust nature more than engineers.

Cloaks or cloacas?

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I would probably swim if I had a 'swim cloak'. I have thought about getting a burkini, but they still show off your hideous obesity, even if they hide your skin.

The pool balcony ones don't exist yet. They're plans for some building but I can't remember where. They're awesome but so scary. Would totally go in the ones in Bali. That looks amazing.

damn your proper reptilian anatomical mind! I always swim with a t shirt. Fuck the sun

I was torturing myself the other day looking at pictures of places similar to this in the Maldives.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zIrjSt3vDIM/T2Tefxs5G_I/AAAAAAAAFzU/eYvf_ft9fcA/s1600/mysticvacation1.jpg

Oh, no big deal just hanging out in my private pool looking out over the most beautiful ocean in the world which I'll take a dip in next.

I bet there are many awful insects there that make a home in your body

GOOD POINT

I will concentrate on that. Thank you.

Like a maggot/centipede that lays egg sin between you toes wich burrow into your bone marrow and lay things that grow into spider things that eat you alive from the inside.

And you better hurry, the Maldives will be under water soon.

We will make a new, better Maldives

The pool balcony ones don't exist yet. They're plans for some building but I can't remember where

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oops, the curved balcony pools on every floor are from an architectural mockup of the 140m tall Parinee Ism residential tower in India proposed by James Law Architects; its design hasn't been finalised. I forgot how good proposed building sketches can look nowadays.

The other pools I posted are real though. The balcony pool with the glass bottom is at the Avalon Hotel in Gothenburg, Sweden. The long pool with the city in the backdrop is the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.

(not Hong Kong or Shanghai)

my new partment is across the street from a free outdoor public pool! as of july first i will swim EVERY DAY

free outdoor public enterococci!

I like swimming but I've never been very good at it. My biggest issue is that I run out of steam very quickly. I can swim/float competently enough in deep water, but it makes me feel very anxious.

I'm going to Hawaii in a couple weeks and plan to spend a lot of time in the water trying out snorkling for the first time. My whole family bought snorkles and we tested them out over the weekend in a local public pool. It was fun and weird at the same time. I feel like I'll be able to handle it well in the ocean, but have a lot of paranoia about ending up out too deep and not being able to get back to shore.

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haha, the snorks have come up in conversations quite a bit lately!

i snorkled for the first time (in hawaii too!) a few months ago and i'm a strong swimmer - it takes a bit of getting used to because of the waves and making sure you keep track of where you are in the water, but it's soooo fun and cool. just remember that you can take your mask/snorkle off at any time you feel anxious. it's an easy learning curve though and you just breathe in and out through your mouth and blow water out when it gets in, no prob. also, wearing a t-shirt is a good idea at first because your back will get burned...

thanks for the advice. Another tricky challenge will be keeping track of my 9 year old son who has really never been in the ocean much before.

Most of my swimming is actually in a boring (but wonderfully clean and smooth) indoor pool, although it is 50m x 8 lanes wide, and has a big water slide, two hot tubs, and (my favorite) a 10 meter (33') diving platform which I've never actually dived head first off of, but love to jump from. Not as much fun as real cliff diving from a choice spot along the Billy Goat Trail near Great Falls in Maryland where the view is amazing, but much more convenient (and probably more safe, and definitely more legal). I just like dreaming of cooler pools.

Moodles, be sure you understand how rip currents work before swimming in Hawaii beaches. They are very strong in some areas at some times. Basically if you keep moving further from shore, swim sideways until you're out of the rip current, then swim towards the shore. If need be, float on your back using elementary backstroke (which moves you adequately fast and doesn't wear you out much). Fortunately, salt water is much more bouyant. The rip tide at Waimea Bay in the winter could knock me over even when the water is only just above my knees. I wore a personal floatation device part of the time I was so nervous, which keeps your head afloat.

Thanks, my goal is to stick with beaches that have fairly calm currents this time of year. I have a pretty good idea of where those are, but I'm still feeling wary and hope that there will be clear information available about this when I get there.

Generally from what I understand - northern beaches calm in the summer, southern beaches in winter. I was there in December and Waikiki was calm, Waimea had 20+ foot waves (whose swells I swam up and down, out past the breakers, easily one of the most thrilling and bazarre sensations I've ever known - it's like you're swimming uphill for four seconds, then downhill). Just when I had come to accept that the water surface always stays more or less flat. (don't try this if you're sane). Although I was astonished to find little kids out there playing around in the water and surfing those huge waves. I guess if you live in Oahu, you learn to surf as a kid the way I learned to play soccer.

Is snorkle the American way of spelling it, or is it just that I'm the only person annoying enough to point out that it's 'snorkel'?

i am not the best speller with words i hardly ever use :/

and with -el/-le words

Sorry, hope that wasn't snarky - it sounds fun, anyway!

My friend taught me to dog-paddle when I was 19 so I can get around in a pool. But I'm not really a swimmer. My goal for the next year is definitely to learn how to do it properly. I think it's the one form of exercise that could actually be FUN for me.

My friend has a pool in her backyard and tbh that's my new material dream. It's fucking awesome.