I Went Swimming In The Ocean Today!

it's the murky waters of the english channel. i guess i could wear shoes, but then i'd have to think of another excuse for not doing it

It was cold. but the bigger problem was it was quite rough, big waves. I didn't feel comfortable with the combination and got myself subbed off

if we have larger waves here, they can sometimes shape the beach so it enters the water at quite a steep angle. no problem getting in though it gets deep quite quickly, but climbing back out again feels pretty desperate to me

mostly cos of the thrill she's getting from it. personally i think she's nuts (could possibly tolerate the cold and the wet, but the fucking pebbles are a complete deal breaker), but she always come back so exhilarated, just absolutely buzzing from it

swimming in cold water is really exhilarating, it's so hard to get in at first but coming out i feel truly alive. there is a schvitz in town where they have a sauna/steam room on one side and a cold pool (supposedly 40f) on the other, it is the most exhilarating feeling going between the two, the cold pool is an essential part of the experience

Going into the sea and rivers without a wet-suit seems like madness.

pictured: a mental asylum

https://www.abc.net.au/news/image/5197452-16x9-940x529.jpg

would estimate < 10% of those people are going to get any part of their body wet.

I'm going to have another go at this today

xpost: this is not my experience of that particular beach

https://i.imgur.com/dDqIhIB.jpg

nb this is v much my experience of this particular beach

https://i.imgur.com/dDqIhIB.jpg

see, 100% of those people are getting wet

that crowded beach pic actually looks like an oppressive and bad use of terra firma to me, if there was about 99% less ppl there it might work for me - but otherwise it looks like a detail from a Bosch hellscape.