Great feeling:)

Well, as you say, even for a weaker swimmer it is possible to enjoy by staying in the low water. I think that a few hours is my average, and that is because people always call me and joke with me that I am growing gills and webbed feet LOL

A few hours is my average. I would stay longer but everyone starts calling me joking that I am growing gills and webbed feet LOL

sorry for the double post, somehow it seemed like it didn't post so I tried it again, but not only it posted twice but it cut half of it. grrrrrrr :)

hehehe I wish I had a swimming pool , not even mine, but at least close by. There is one but I still have to take a bus to get there and the travel time plus the time in the pool really cuts into the time I have to do other things. But if it was just there, I would go every day :):):)

Yeah I love my pool its just a above gound pool but its like 4 feet deep and very large. Just enough for me to relax in when the kids are gone to school yes summer school i love it lol.

It's great that you have that opportunity. Me, i would swim in a bath tub if it was big enough LOL but unfortunately that doesn't happen :)

Of course a swimming pool will do, a lake, but for me nothing compares with the ocean, salt and all :) I guess a small part might have to do with what one is more used to but for me nothing beats swimming in the ocean :)

LOL I am more paranoid about the water in a lake. It's often muddy in the bottom and I don't know what's under all the mud. In the ocean it's sandy and often more clear so we can see:) As for water getting into my mouth I like salty so I guess it's fine LOL better than the chloryne. Actually they used to say that it was actually good - like gargling with salt water, or using saline nose drops. Don't know if it's true or not but I can tell you I never had sinus problems until I came here and when I go home to the beach they go away.

LOL I agree with you, but of course prefer ocean even more than lake. I don't like the muddy feeling on the bottom and really prefer to feel the sand in my feet. I remember saying this to one of my friends here and she said that not at all, it was sand and it felt like sand, but not to me LOL

I was not keen on competition either, it's the overall relaxing effect that I like. I know that a lot of people are ok swallowing lake or swimming pool water than ocean, but I can tell you that it's way healthier than the fresh water, specially the chlorine in the swimming pools.

Well, that is understandable. THe closest I was to drowning I was about 11 years old and both me and my cousin fell from the pier bikes and all. But it was almost low tide - which I don't know if it was better or worse LOL - so the water was going down.

Oh sweety, what a pity that they did that to you. SOmetimes the effects of a poor joke or silly action carry on trough our lives. In this case it deprived you from enjoying one of the most relaxing activities. Once we were checking out the highest diving board. We weren't exactly going to jump but wanted to see hoe it looked from there. But my cousin decided to push me and there I was falling - thankfully feet first - it scared me, but at the same time when I came up to the surface I understood that it was possible and from then on we were diving only from that one LOL But for a few seconds down there I almost panicked.

I can understand. WHen we are not used to it , the ocean can be a bit scary, special when the waves are high. I can see how that "sliminess" might be soothing to the skin, but I will choose the stinging salt water any day LOL I never had sinus problems while I lived by the ocean. Cuts and scraps used to sting a bit as I entered the water but always healed really fast. The salt in the skin acted a bit like one of those body scrubs that we buy - an expensive too - to make our skin look pretty, without the cost of course :) And if you ever swim in the ocean you will notice that you have to make no effort whatsoever to float. Water is denser so it keeps you afloat :) The waves... well... sometimes they're just tiny little things hehehehe In case of doubt , dive under :) Oh my , now I really miss the whole experience LOL

LOL I seem to recall the same cry as I go swimming to hehehehe But I don't care. They won't get me away from my swimming LOL

LOL MY parents used to tell me that all the time. Sometimes my dad would joke with me and start spining me around looking for the gills and fins hehehe

I know... it's so easy to float in salt water. Plus there's a different feel to it. I also like to feel the waves. Sure some lakes do have waves but I like them a bit fuller like in the ocean. As for the salt, I even like to feel it dry in my skin. SOmetimes there are showers right on the beach to rinse if one wants, but waiting till getting back home is ok with me too :)

Yes, it's an incredible feeling. My parents loved to swim to and I have been swimming since 4 ot 5. My little cousins used to be in the water swimming even before they were 2. My aunt had those inflatable things that you put in your arms and they would swim by us in the shallower water.