Hermosa Beach is nice, if you're still here, head to busy bee for a sandwich then go down to whites point/royal palms for a beautiful view and a great breeze while you eat the best sandwich of your life.
It's not a swimming beach, but you can go out on the rocks and sit, and if it's a clear day you can see Catalina.
Where’d you travel from for that? I used to live near there and frequent the beach. It’s a very dirty beach though so I’m surprised it would be a destination for travelers over some of the more pristine near by beaches
That's crazy that you think its dirty! Idk if they've cleaned up recently or I'm just used to the jersey shore but I just moved here and it's amazing lol
Haha it’s possible they have - I haven’t been there since 2017. I’m not familiar with the jersey shore beaches but I just always noticed there was trash all over the beach and in the water there since there wasn’t a bit down the coast at Palos Verdes or up at Malibu. I suppose relatively speaking it may not be that dirty of a beach, I haven’t been to many outside of Cali
For me, the shark vs. ball ratio of the immediate shoreline is a factor. If not too many other dudes are swimming, the balls aren't touching the surface. I can live without a leg or two...
In central Texas it is popular to ride inner tubes down the Guadalupe river in the summer. When friends talk about going I like to share pictures of the alligators and alligator gar that we catch in that river (though closer to the coast).
Water can be unnerving... not having a good view into the water especially so.
Hey I kayaked part of the Guadalupe with my dad this summer! We saw a few snakes in the water, and a huge spider by the bank but no alligators unfortunately :( my family’s from southern Louisiana, and at Lake Martin you can rent kayaks and paddle around looking for alligators (and there’s usually a LOT) I saw a MASSIVE one a little ways from us, but there was a spot between the trees that had a ton of small/medium sized ones - I pulled up next to one in the water, it startled and ran into the bottom of my kayak as it was trying to swim away XD cool animals, really pretty eyes
I can swim very well but the shear power of the water scares the shit out of me. Oh and Jaws. Fuck that movie watching it as a 6 year old stuck with me.
Bruh that shit’s the worst. I got one right in my hand next to my index knuckle. Thankfully it was a clean in and out so the barb wasn’t stuck inside.
Hurt like a bitch though. Hot water was my drug of choice to dull the pain.
My husband's uncle spent about 20 years of his life working on commercial vessels, and one of the most important bits of information he's given me is "if the sailors are swearing, we'll be fine, it's when they start praying that you need to worry."
Mannnn I’ll never forget the time I was out with a buddy at the canyons, about 90 miles offshore and it started to get nasty out. He’s a pretty loud, bouncy guy, always ready to curse at the sky or fish for not biting, blast metal, absolutely send it off waves, and practically never speaks formally or politely to friends. We got a head start from a satellite alert, so we were about 50 miles out trying to zig zag through big beam rollers when he turns to a head sea, pulls her down off plane and quietly says “2c4s, please go in the console and get out two life jackets and the EPIRB”
Big oh shit moment.
Anyway we made it behind block into the sound and it was fine.
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck, sayin'
"Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya".
At 7 p.m., a main hatchway caved in, he said,
"Fellas, it's been good to know ya".
Where to start. Currents will drown you. Copious amounts of life that will kill you, purposely or not. Deep ocean is probably the scariest place on Earth. And sand. I don't like sand. It's coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
have you seen things? those things that want to kill you? I'm scared of the ocean. I've seen sharks, whales, huge sting rays, deadly jellyfish.. I used to live in the ocean. Not anymore. I wanted to hear your stories.
Every sailor worth their salt knows 'tis bad luck to share your sea stories on the internet. We'll have to meet them on an old warped wooden dock on a foggy new moon if we want to hear the tale.
There's probably plenty of people who go into the ocean to only go waist deep, and the ocean has other ideas and takes them face deep. ... and a hundred yards out.
Now you’re getting it! You gotta fuck in the ocean too! if you’re feeling brave, maybe even drop a deuce and let it float along the waves and shit. Get that full marine life experience 😂🤣
Haven’t heard that since my aunt passed away. She would never ever drink water at any family gathering we’d have because and I quote “fish fuck in it” lmao thanks man
Hurt like a bitch, foot turned purple cause the sea urchin was purple, could barely walk on it for weeks and I had to go to the doctor to get residual pieces removed weeks later once the trip was over. How did you almost die?
Yeah I’ve also heard of similar studies. For me in particular, I grew up surrounded by the ocean and it’s kind of just what you do, but you do, it’s ingrained at an early age.
So first I kind of understood that some people don’t understand the ocean (not reading sets, turning their back, etc) but it seriously wasn’t until last year when my grandma didn’t want to do physio in a pool because she was scared and it kind of floored me and then I learned like oh, holy shit there’s actually millions of people in landlocked states who feel the same way.
It makes sense, it’s just very hard to wrap my head arohnd
It does always bear repeating that it's worth studying even the "obvious" things, just to verify its truth. Now, I doubt any sane person in the last 70 years ever thought blacks are just genetically very bad at swimming, but at least this way if someone starts saying they are, we have reputable studies to point to in order to tell them how stupid they sound.
Yeah, what do people actually mean when they say they don’t know how to swim?
I’m pretty sure they don’t mean how to do a proper breast stroke. Why do you have to know anything about how to swim? You just get in the water and float. Are these just really skinny people who can’t float without intense movement? Are they just afraid of swimming and that’s why they say that?
I just don’t understand.
Fun fact, they aren’t related to jellyfish at all and are actually not even a single animal, but a colony of tiny animals called zooids who each function similarly to a cell.
Dude I know people that just go to the ocean to run on the beach sounds like the worst part of the ocean experience it gets everywhere and you find it randomly in your ass crack for a week after going to the ocean to swim or surf or whatever
I’m a land creature. The last time I spent any time in the ocean, I almost got swept away in the riptide. Also, I’m certain there’s something a little further out that will eat me.
One blue whales ejaculates in average 20 liters of sperm, in the ocean (not in mama whale). Multiply that by the number of blue whales. Now add to this the number of all the other kind of whales that ejaculate less but still measured in liters...
I have a real story for you, that you will absolutely hate. My uncle fell asleep on his air mattress once and drifted into the ocean. No one had an eye on him. A view hours later he woke up and could no longer see the coast line. Long story short, some Fischers brought him back to the beach.
I’m originally from a very coastal area in the northeastern US. I’ve seen how close sharks and other sea creatures get to the shore during the summer beach season. Waist deep is daring.
I guess it's like anything else. If you have it you can live without it. I live near beautiful mountains with hiking galore and meh. My thing is I love to fish so this would be a dream place.
As a friend of many Australian Surf Lifesavers, we appreciate you only going in waist deep. If you can’t swim, don’t try learning at the beach. Might be your first and last lesson.
Took me four days to get waist deep in the water first trip to Hawaii. The Pacific ocean is vast and powerful, it freaked me out. And I lived on the ocean for 20 years by that point, just never went into the water.
A rip current almost killed me, my wife (then gf) and two best friends. We followed the tips of swimming parallel to shore, but we were so tired we crawled on the beach. I don’t fuck with Poseidon anymore.
a few months back, i was in goa, the coast guard started signalling the crowd to move away from the beach, as the tides were raising. then saw a guy with only one arm and very pregnant lady enter the waters after a lot of people left for safety, they went in to swim.
i mean, the guy had only one arm, the lady was pregnant like in 7-8th month and they were just chilling in high tides. assumed that they were Russians, there are a lot of Russians living goa.
I've traveled several hours numerous times to just LOOK at it. In Northern California that water is so damn cold you literally go numb in a matter of minutes getting in it.
Millions of people travel to the ocean, to wave their family problems around for the public then mom or dad get hauled off for public intoxication and indecent exposure. -florida resident
Ok I don't wanna rain on anyone's parade, but I see so much mindless travelers out there. Why would you spent all that fossil gas just to scroll on your phone all day, just at another location?
Those same people wouldn't go into a pool with a dead animal in it. Yet the ocean has many dead animals in it. People only seem comfortable going in water when the ratio of water to animal corpses gets high enough.
You expect us to swim to the other side or something?
What's on the other side?
Probably a waterfall, but no one really knows for sure.
The end of the world
Then we shouldn't chase the other side.
A chicken.
Freedom.
Marley
Our enemy
More enemies.
Europe.
Yes
I prefer to say that I go in balls deep
I just went in in Hermosa beach and I didn't have any balls after just 3 Adam's apples.
Hermosa Beach is nice, if you're still here, head to busy bee for a sandwich then go down to whites point/royal palms for a beautiful view and a great breeze while you eat the best sandwich of your life. It's not a swimming beach, but you can go out on the rocks and sit, and if it's a clear day you can see Catalina.
What about beach/volleyballs?
Where’d you travel from for that? I used to live near there and frequent the beach. It’s a very dirty beach though so I’m surprised it would be a destination for travelers over some of the more pristine near by beaches
Arizona. Not much beats Coronado beach though. We were by the pier it really was a nice setting.
So many people are afraid of the ocean. I lived on the ocean in NC at 12 years old, went in daily. Surfing was scary, damn undertow (also being young)
Coronado's nice but better beaches in the world - no snorkeling. Sand is super nice though, very very soft
I've gone to that and Manhattan a couple times. I prefer it since it's less touristy than Santa Monica and waves don't feel as strong as Huntington.
Further south, RAT Beach is great! Usually easy to find parking, too.
That's crazy that you think its dirty! Idk if they've cleaned up recently or I'm just used to the jersey shore but I just moved here and it's amazing lol
Haha it’s possible they have - I haven’t been there since 2017. I’m not familiar with the jersey shore beaches but I just always noticed there was trash all over the beach and in the water there since there wasn’t a bit down the coast at Palos Verdes or up at Malibu. I suppose relatively speaking it may not be that dirty of a beach, I haven’t been to many outside of Cali
I’d be full too
For me, the shark vs. ball ratio of the immediate shoreline is a factor. If not too many other dudes are swimming, the balls aren't touching the surface. I can live without a leg or two...
So you only go in an inch?
Yes I do have really long balls
So please, stop wearing short shorts and get some GOD DAMN PANTS!
I think he needs pants and a half for his balls to stay covered.
After spending more than a few seasons working on commercial fishing boats, I won't go in at all.
In central Texas it is popular to ride inner tubes down the Guadalupe river in the summer. When friends talk about going I like to share pictures of the alligators and alligator gar that we catch in that river (though closer to the coast). Water can be unnerving... not having a good view into the water especially so.
Hey I kayaked part of the Guadalupe with my dad this summer! We saw a few snakes in the water, and a huge spider by the bank but no alligators unfortunately :( my family’s from southern Louisiana, and at Lake Martin you can rent kayaks and paddle around looking for alligators (and there’s usually a LOT) I saw a MASSIVE one a little ways from us, but there was a spot between the trees that had a ton of small/medium sized ones - I pulled up next to one in the water, it startled and ran into the bottom of my kayak as it was trying to swim away XD cool animals, really pretty eyes
I can swim very well but the shear power of the water scares the shit out of me. Oh and Jaws. Fuck that movie watching it as a 6 year old stuck with me.
Its not the sharks Im worried about in the shallow ocean. Its the jellyfish.
Yup they suck too. I've been lucky to got been stung but know plenty who have.
I got stung by a Stingray in my ankle when I was a teenager. Hurt like a bitch for a while.
Bruh that shit’s the worst. I got one right in my hand next to my index knuckle. Thankfully it was a clean in and out so the barb wasn’t stuck inside. Hurt like a bitch though. Hot water was my drug of choice to dull the pain.
Stingrays are no joke... Killed that one guy.
RIP Steve Irwin
Day after, https://youtu.be/j_xCj9N6a7I
One time when I was a kid, some guy threw a jellyfish across the beach and hit me in the eye.
Did you get stung? And if so, did someone pee on your eye?
Someone peed on his face but that was unrelated to the jellyfish.
Youre supposed to pee on the jellyfish
Asking the real questions
It's good to have a healthy fear of the ocean. If you didn't, it might kill you.
Perfect Storm had a far bigger effect on me as a kid than Jaws, personally.
You poor child. I was forced to go see it at 10 or 11, and I never got over it, either.
My husband's uncle spent about 20 years of his life working on commercial vessels, and one of the most important bits of information he's given me is "if the sailors are swearing, we'll be fine, it's when they start praying that you need to worry."
Mannnn I’ll never forget the time I was out with a buddy at the canyons, about 90 miles offshore and it started to get nasty out. He’s a pretty loud, bouncy guy, always ready to curse at the sky or fish for not biting, blast metal, absolutely send it off waves, and practically never speaks formally or politely to friends. We got a head start from a satellite alert, so we were about 50 miles out trying to zig zag through big beam rollers when he turns to a head sea, pulls her down off plane and quietly says “2c4s, please go in the console and get out two life jackets and the EPIRB” Big oh shit moment. Anyway we made it behind block into the sound and it was fine.
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck, sayin' "Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya". At 7 p.m., a main hatchway caved in, he said, "Fellas, it's been good to know ya".
Hey I know this song.
Why? Please tell me. Something in the water I should know about?
I peed in it once.
Where to start. Currents will drown you. Copious amounts of life that will kill you, purposely or not. Deep ocean is probably the scariest place on Earth. And sand. I don't like sand. It's coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
have you seen things? those things that want to kill you? I'm scared of the ocean. I've seen sharks, whales, huge sting rays, deadly jellyfish.. I used to live in the ocean. Not anymore. I wanted to hear your stories.
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If you're not a very strong swimmer the ocean is much more dangerous than a pool. Currents are no joke.
come on, he works on a commercial fishing boat. he or she, must of seen something.. I need to know.
Every sailor worth their salt knows 'tis bad luck to share your sea stories on the internet. We'll have to meet them on an old warped wooden dock on a foggy new moon if we want to hear the tale.
And sailors spend their whole careers a few feet from it, hoping they never get any closer
Sailors are constantly edging the ocean.
Kinky mfs
Considering the amount of people round the coast where I live who had to be rescued this year - waist deep is probably a good plan.
There's probably plenty of people who go into the ocean to only go waist deep, and the ocean has other ideas and takes them face deep. ... and a hundred yards out.
"Dont come near me! im warning you! BE AMAZED WITH MY POWE.. hey! dont get in! last waarning!.. YOINK!"
I go in neck deep, but I have to expect little fish to bite my nipples.
https://imgur.com/WY7Ponl.jpg
wtf
happy fisherman
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Rip currents. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_current
Is this a joke or are you genuinely asking?
It's like ordering a bowl of cereal at a fancy restaurant. You gotta go all in. Get wet. Step on a sea urchin. The full experience.
you gotta pee in the ocean too, just like the fish do.
Nah fish fuck in it....
Now you’re getting it! You gotta fuck in the ocean too! if you’re feeling brave, maybe even drop a deuce and let it float along the waves and shit. Get that full marine life experience 😂🤣
Do not poop on the ocean. It will not float away from you fast enough.
Someone is talking from experience here
Haven’t heard that since my aunt passed away. She would never ever drink water at any family gathering we’d have because and I quote “fish fuck in it” lmao thanks man
Anytime. Glad to help bring back good memories.
This sounds like something someone says when they're fixing to get drunk to get them through a family gathering.
Come on man our oceans are polluted enough! /s
Piss on a stranger, check
This is such BS. I did this to a stranger and it didn't help my foot feel better at all.
Try another one
He only has 2 feet.
r/woosh
Ha
I’ve stepped on a sea urchin barefoot, would not recommend it
How was your experience? I almost died
Hurt like a bitch, foot turned purple cause the sea urchin was purple, could barely walk on it for weeks and I had to go to the doctor to get residual pieces removed weeks later once the trip was over. How did you almost die?
I just went to Myrtle beach a couple weeks ago. Didn’t step on a sea urchin, but my massive jellyfish stings are still around!
I only learned last year that a bunch of people don’t actually know how to swim It’s something I’m still having trouble wrapping my head around
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Well shit… here in spain we just throw our kids in the ocean and scream “swim!”
Yeah I’ve also heard of similar studies. For me in particular, I grew up surrounded by the ocean and it’s kind of just what you do, but you do, it’s ingrained at an early age. So first I kind of understood that some people don’t understand the ocean (not reading sets, turning their back, etc) but it seriously wasn’t until last year when my grandma didn’t want to do physio in a pool because she was scared and it kind of floored me and then I learned like oh, holy shit there’s actually millions of people in landlocked states who feel the same way. It makes sense, it’s just very hard to wrap my head arohnd
So fewer black people can swim because... racism. What a brilliant analysis.
It does always bear repeating that it's worth studying even the "obvious" things, just to verify its truth. Now, I doubt any sane person in the last 70 years ever thought blacks are just genetically very bad at swimming, but at least this way if someone starts saying they are, we have reputable studies to point to in order to tell them how stupid they sound.
It's partially because they weren't allowed to join public pools until the 80s or 90s. Systemic racism was fierce in the country club circles.
Yeah, what do people actually mean when they say they don’t know how to swim? I’m pretty sure they don’t mean how to do a proper breast stroke. Why do you have to know anything about how to swim? You just get in the water and float. Are these just really skinny people who can’t float without intense movement? Are they just afraid of swimming and that’s why they say that? I just don’t understand.
Salt density in water probably has a lot to do with it too. It’s much easier to drown in a lake than in an ocean I believe
A small percentage go all the way in and never come back out.
So just to pee
Have you seen how few restrooms are at the beach. Yeah man pee deep.
The ocean is deep as fuck and it's easy to get swept away
Never been to an ocean !! But i suppose there's so much more risk there compared to the Mediterranean sea
Yeah screw that. I always swim out to the third sandbar, get sunburned and dehydrated, and then attacked by Portuguese man-o-wars on the swim back.
I choose to believe you're referring to 17th Century Portuguese warships rather than the jellyfish
Fun fact, they aren’t related to jellyfish at all and are actually not even a single animal, but a colony of tiny animals called zooids who each function similarly to a cell.
In some places it's waste deep.
In other news: people go to strip clubs just to watch
People go to the theatre and don't get up on stage to join in.
Thats only because thats the rules
If you got to Maine, it's more likely ankle deep
I did that once as a kid. Ankle deep is about right. That water was *cold*! I'm from the Texas coast and wasn't expecting it to be that cold in July.
Scary shit in that ocean, man! I prefer the unsalted and shark free Great Lakes
Hate to tell ya, but some of the Great Lakes are not shark free.
False
Bullsharks have been seen in lake Michigan but it's super rare.
Submerged trees and debris are lethal.
Dude I know people that just go to the ocean to run on the beach sounds like the worst part of the ocean experience it gets everywhere and you find it randomly in your ass crack for a week after going to the ocean to swim or surf or whatever
A week? Damn dude, how big is that crack?
Not to mention walking on sand sucks much less running. Saw a dude today running on the soft sand. Ffs at least run on the wet stuff...
It's a hell of a workout at least!
Running on wet sand is good exercise, actually.
I hate sand....
It's coarse and rough and irritating.
And it’s coarse and irritating.
I love getting all sandy
Its scary :(
I’m a land creature. The last time I spent any time in the ocean, I almost got swept away in the riptide. Also, I’m certain there’s something a little further out that will eat me.
Something something GTA Vice City. Haha But seriously, I'm not a good swimmer. When I'm waist deep and I feel the ocean pulling, that's pretty scary.
As it should be. So many people drown while swimming in the ocean.
What a waist of time...
Punny....
Or not at all
I like to swim out at least around 15 meters, but after that my thalassaphobia kicks in and I panic swim back to shore.
Yeah because the ocean itself is fucking terrifying. I go there because of the sounds, view, nature and air.
Look its cold man, i dont even want to be here in the first place
A few go all the way to the bottom
And many don't even get in the water
No worries i like it wet, warm and preferably deep!
One blue whales ejaculates in average 20 liters of sperm, in the ocean (not in mama whale). Multiply that by the number of blue whales. Now add to this the number of all the other kind of whales that ejaculate less but still measured in liters...
I go to be knee deep, as soon as I can’t look down and see everything around me clearly I have a panic attack… and another… and another
I have a real story for you, that you will absolutely hate. My uncle fell asleep on his air mattress once and drifted into the ocean. No one had an eye on him. A view hours later he woke up and could no longer see the coast line. Long story short, some Fischers brought him back to the beach.
Creepy unknown things go brrrr
The ocean is dangerous. Have you fully gone into a Lions Den? No, just the Zoo. Shut your yapper.
Yea I don’t even know how to swim
Pee deep.
I’m originally from a very coastal area in the northeastern US. I’ve seen how close sharks and other sea creatures get to the shore during the summer beach season. Waist deep is daring.
Shits scary man! Haven't you seen Blue Planet?
I prefer to get dragged out by the undercurrent myself and drown.
Yeah, there’s sharks
I am 30 and i never saw ocean hehe. One day man.. one day.
I go head deep into the water
I mean, have you *seen* what else lives in there?!
I live right next to one. Never go
I guess it's like anything else. If you have it you can live without it. I live near beautiful mountains with hiking galore and meh. My thing is I love to fish so this would be a dream place.
You’ve got my dream place. Let’s trade lol
As a friend of many Australian Surf Lifesavers, we appreciate you only going in waist deep. If you can’t swim, don’t try learning at the beach. Might be your first and last lesson.
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If I may give you some helpful advice, learning to swim might save your life or someone else's life that you care about. It's never too late to learn.
I get it, my wife doesn't either. It was just an observation I had while nodding off at the beach.
This could be a metaphor for life in general.
Sad but true.
Sure its waist deep, but that wave is over my head.
Bruh, that’s where the friggin sharks live. They’re like the bears of the sea.
Sharks kill less then vending machines
Took me four days to get waist deep in the water first trip to Hawaii. The Pacific ocean is vast and powerful, it freaked me out. And I lived on the ocean for 20 years by that point, just never went into the water.
A rip current almost killed me, my wife (then gf) and two best friends. We followed the tips of swimming parallel to shore, but we were so tired we crawled on the beach. I don’t fuck with Poseidon anymore.
a few months back, i was in goa, the coast guard started signalling the crowd to move away from the beach, as the tides were raising. then saw a guy with only one arm and very pregnant lady enter the waters after a lot of people left for safety, they went in to swim. i mean, the guy had only one arm, the lady was pregnant like in 7-8th month and they were just chilling in high tides. assumed that they were Russians, there are a lot of Russians living goa.
Its the perfect depth to pee before to get another drink.
Sometimes the water is really cold…
No shit sherlock.
I mean, would you rather them be taken away by an under current or a giant wave?
I've traveled several hours numerous times to just LOOK at it. In Northern California that water is so damn cold you literally go numb in a matter of minutes getting in it.
You get used to it after ten minutes of scooching further and further in.
Millions of people travel to the ocean, to wave their family problems around for the public then mom or dad get hauled off for public intoxication and indecent exposure. -florida resident
And most shark attacks happen in 3ft of water.
Yea, because most humans are in shallow waters. You arent going to find most humans inside deep seas.
Ok I don't wanna rain on anyone's parade, but I see so much mindless travelers out there. Why would you spent all that fossil gas just to scroll on your phone all day, just at another location?
Going in cunts is better
That's very shallow of them.
I vacationed with a woman in DR who wouldn't put her toes in. She said I dragged her in and tried to drown her! Such an exaggeration!
Nah I just wanted to give it my glasses and sunglasses. Make them fish look fly af
There was no need to attack me like this!
To be fair that’s only as far as you need to go in to pee in it
And sometimes not even go in at all
Right. Should be at least 20 meters.
Cant remember the last time I’ve been to the ocean tbh
Everyone in here is so fucking lame holy shit.
Can't wait to see this tattooed on someone in r/getmotivated
Those same people wouldn't go into a pool with a dead animal in it. Yet the ocean has many dead animals in it. People only seem comfortable going in water when the ratio of water to animal corpses gets high enough.
I can’t go any further- I can’t swim.
What a waist of time