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foodisfun
Posts: 5427 - Karma: 287
Today I was at a public beach for the first time in a long time, and it was here when I overheard a conversation from some visitors about being really excited to finally see the ocean.  I got to talking to them and they were so stoked just to be able to actually see waves and go in the water.  I guess i've taken it for granted living just minutes from an unlimited number of beaches, that not everyone has been to a real beach on the ocean.

I was just wondering if there's anyone on here who has never been to a beach on an ocean, and what your expecations are of the beach.
Jul 7 2007 3:30PM
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josh.
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i have my own private beach (my front yard) and i have been taking it for grantit
Jul 7 2007 3:31PM
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Nihiriju
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i live on wreck beach, or a 2 min walk from it....i go get naked evvery day. 
Jul 7 2007 3:32PM
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Shpadoinkle
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damn...i feel so privileged. maybe?
Jul 7 2007 3:35PM
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bigwhite.steeze
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i live on the beach to a pretty big lake...but i go to vancouver island regularly so idk
Jul 7 2007 3:37PM
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*monsterskier*
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really? nicee
Jul 7 2007 3:39PM
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*Four*Zero*Six*
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Ive never even been out of Montana though now thats bad!
Jul 7 2007 3:50PM
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Piste.Off
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ive have never been to a beach on the ocean but on lakes i have
Jul 7 2007 5:46PM
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Alkyy
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i guess i went when i was like 2 or 3 in the long island sound, i dont know it that really counts.  I would rather go jump off a rock then chill on the beach anyway
Jul 7 2007 6:04PM
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sugarloaf
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i live 5 min from the beach. i'm headed there tonight. there's nothing better than having a cookout/bonfire on the beach.
Jul 7 2007 6:14PM
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Microcosm
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I'm at the beach everyday all day in the summer. some people barely go, it's crazy.
Jul 7 2007 6:15PM
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steevner
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i live on a beach for a couple weeks each summer. like my cottage overhangs the beach.
at home i have a 500ft. backyard separating me from a large steep hill with a beach at the bottom. i like it a lot cause i can just sail up to my beach and go grab lunch and bounce on my trampoline with whoever i'm sailing with
Jul 7 2007 6:16PM
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720skiguy
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never been to an ocean, i live in michigan so i got the great lakes though so ive been to plenty of beaches
Jul 7 2007 7:07PM
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ShadyHillGroup
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i live on the ocean for most of the year, and the rest im 45 minutes away, and i love how when i go somewhere thats a sound or a bay, all the locals call it the ocean, im like no this is not the ocean, not even close
Jul 7 2007 7:11PM
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Pirruccio
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seeings that montana is so big
you have a decent exuse
Jul 7 2007 8:12PM
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skifree919
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i had a friend move to my high school freshman year from haiti and he had never seen snow before. He also said the coldest it ever got in haiti was in teh 50s, and that was like FREEZING. He wore his winter jacket until like May in new jersey for his first year haha. Hes a baller
Jul 7 2007 8:40PM
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Mezmerize19
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umm I skim board. thats about it. then take a nap on the beach. But yeah listening to what people have to say sometimes is so funny
Jul 7 2007 9:34PM
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Holte
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i go to college in Los Angeles, and there were a few kids from Arizona at the beginning of my freshman year who had never seen fog or snow. The first time fog rolled in they were running around yelling about how it was just like the movies!  It was too weird...

Never met anybody who hasn't been to the ocean though.
Jul 7 2007 9:39PM
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anna*
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i love my beach...hhahaha.
i live like...a 5 min drive from it, my boyfriend is a 2 min walk, and my beach house is like..150 m from it.

there are alot of people i met in europe that havent seen a beach, and theyre always amazed at the fact that most of australia lives damn close to the beach.
Jul 7 2007 9:40PM
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xAtticusx
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beaches are amazinggggg. i live like 10 minutes from one and my boyfriend lives 5 minutes walking distance from it. i got ot he beach so often. they have rocks out there that you can walk on that lead near the water. its amazing trying to watch the sunset too
Jul 7 2007 9:47PM
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Ahmets_Brother
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ive never really been to a beach. Ive never been to the ocean. Ive been to small lil beaches on lakes but they suck and zebra muscles plague the waters with hidden doom. Im gonna go to my first real beach next week when im in turkey. Im stoked
Jul 7 2007 10:27PM
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Fish_Sandwich.
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I live on a fucking island.....
Jul 7 2007 11:04PM
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chickenwang
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i wish i went to the beach more often...

its almost like people that have never seen snow and we are so used to it we love when it comes and hate when it goes
Jul 7 2007 11:29PM
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t-roy
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i've been to beacehs all over the great lakes in michigan, in florida and in texas. i like the beaches around my home at the very tip of michigan. lake superior water is so clean and clear. chilly though, but we're hardcore there.
Jul 8 2007 12:09AM
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Kevski
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i go boating every week in summer, so i see a million beaches, and take them all for granted.
Jul 8 2007 12:16AM
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foodisfun
Posts: 5427 - Karma: 287

well i guess while we're at it, post a pic (if you have any) of the beach you go to.  i'd like to see what these "beaches" on lakes look like, never really seen one. 

anyway here's mine from 3/17 of this year.  yea, as in the snowstorm on st paddy's day.

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Jul 8 2007 12:18AM
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FUUUCK
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my neighborhood is called "the beach"
Jul 8 2007 12:22AM
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TheButterHashira
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the ocean isnt that fun anyways id rather have spent my whole life in some nice mountains and never see the beach than live where i do
Jul 8 2007 12:23AM
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maclem
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Jul 8 2007 12:24AM
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sack
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I love beaches. I usually ride my bike around stanley park and around false creek 5, 6 times a week in the summer.. so I do see a lot of beaches. I may go next week... after my tat is healed.. 1st time in years I think!
 
the beaches in vancouver are different from other beaches because you can't see the horizon--vancouver island is in the distance. the first time I was at a beach in california, I was so amazed to see how the ocean seemed to keep on going. it was really weird to see that.
Jul 8 2007 12:26AM
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Tinga
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hmmmm ive been to beaches all over the states. hawaii washington maine alaska florida. but i live in minnesota and swim in the mississippi from time to time. its disgusting.
Jul 8 2007 12:27AM
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SlickRick.
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people around here would give a leg to live near a beach. it would be so sick to just go have a bonfire at a beach whenever nothing was going on
Jul 8 2007 12:29AM
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Stinkey_egg
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i live 1 mile from the beach but it's the worst and dirty beach ever. At least it's always good for bonfires though. Ocean Beach San Francisco is by far the worst in california
Jul 8 2007 12:32AM
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*thebusiness
Posts: 210 - Karma: 15
ive never been to a beach ON the ocean..
ive been to beaches tho
Jul 8 2007 1:14AM
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aussieskier
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Click for larger imagethats manly beach 30 mins on the ferry from the centre of sydney, my place is just up on the hill. its the castle thing, my university and dorm.
Jul 8 2007 2:16AM
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emopoppins
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haha what are you saying thats good

i'd trade a fucking cold gay maine beach for anywhere in montana if its fuckin steep and deep.
Jul 8 2007 2:22AM
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Piste.Off
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i have never been to the beach
Jul 8 2007 2:24AM
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quixotic
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I've seen the atlantic ocean two times in my life. And that's it.

But i've seen lakes in Wisconsin, does that count?
Jul 8 2007 10:20AM
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Nihiriju
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DUDE? SERIOUSLY...paradise. 
Jul 8 2007 3:49PM
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tequila
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Hmmm, there's a beach 50mins from my house. Its crap.
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Jul 8 2007 4:13PM
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doublexl
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i live in the mt.s and see the ocean a couple times a year and am perfectly happy.
Jul 8 2007 4:16PM
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steve.o
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kinda, but not really, mt is sweet
Jul 8 2007 4:20PM
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*DwC*
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yea i have been to the ocean alot, in fact i was there like a week ago, which is pretty good considering i live in montana
Jul 8 2007 4:42PM
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charmander
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i agree, we do have a river place on gucking prist river in fuckin north idaho so that doesnt really count. i love goin to the ocean though but in eastern washington iveo nly seen the ocan a few times in my life :(
Jul 8 2007 7:02PM
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chapz
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well i live on an island, but the st.lawrence is too polluted to swim in. i still get to nova scotia, maine and all the lower eastern states a couple times a year. i love ocean city and virginia beach, thats just me
Jul 8 2007 7:10PM
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Shpadoinkle
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best surfing on the west coast of the east coast...clearwater.
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Jul 8 2007 8:08PM
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SpankyAnalWhore
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I work at a beach, its awesome
Jul 8 2007 8:19PM
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foodisfun
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*Semi-Rant Thing Warning*

well since i finally can drive and i have a car, today i completed what i have been trying to do for years now- going to the beach before 6 AM.  sure, during the winter my friends and i have the beach all to ourselves, but when it's under 40 degrees, it's pretty hard to just relax and lay out. 

so today i took the trip by myself at 5:15 am, and i just sat on the sand by myself for about an hour.  if someone else told me that they did this, i would say that it was a waste of time.  what i found out, however, is that sometimes you need total isolation and loneliness, to really be brought back together with everything.  whether it's family, friends, experiences, or whatever.   i really felt that i mentally accomplished more doing nothing by myself on the beach than i would doing anything else.  i didn't try to think of anything or anyone, i didn't try to do anything.  i just sat, and i felt comforted.

now i know not many of you seem to have access to this type of beach, but i really suggest finding a place that you might normally go to, whether it's a park or mountain or something, and find a time to go alone when no one else is there.  it probably seems dumb and useless unless you're really 'soul searching' or something, but if you have time i would definately do it.  everyone always says how you just have to slow down and enjoy life, but that thought often gets to the back of everyone's minds, and they get back to the same old fast paced life.

ok that's enough of my rant, but really, find time to be alone and just enjoy the best thing you have right now- life

Jul 9 2007 12:33AM
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c+ald
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yeah i live liek a mile from a beach
Jul 9 2007 1:32AM
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ride-rider
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lol, i live on an island.
Jul 9 2007 1:47AM
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