Fayespike and I have started a tradition of getting up at 5:30 in the morning and going swimming in the ocean. We've done this about 5 times now
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i can recall summers living in beverly or manchester-b-t-s when the ocean -never- got warm -in spite- of an extremely hot summer. northern atlantic currents are just a bitch.
but warm is relative and I'm talking as a Mainer who swam in the ocean and thought "hey... this isn't so bad" and sometimes had reason to wonder "what are those whimps over there from NJ complaining about? and why are they wearing sweaters in august?" :*p
Ah... that refreshing sensation that starts in the feet and slowly creeps up the legs like shin splints?
You're probably far tougher than I am at this now. Youth lends a certain invulnerability to this stuff -- with age practice is required and I think I'm at "warm bubble bath" in my cold-water tolerance skills. I would probably need "certain things" surgically removed from my head if I tried to go into the ocean in the early AM...
definitely is a relative thing. the first few years i lived up here i never went in the ocean. to me it was always cold.
one crazy first semester at gordon i got hooked up with some guys who were into going to singing beach in the dark and riding skim boards. typically in the buff.
we did that straight through late october.
now i find ocean water in NJ unrefreshingly warm :)
i've slept outdoors in a sweatshirt in august in maine but generally i like the weather up there a fair bit. after all, i moved up here to get away from the heat. (this has been utterly thwarted by moving to RI where the gulf stream -slams- straight into the southern coast and up the harbor which divides the state in half, thus resulting in radically warmer weather than even boston, a mere 50 miles away, but hidden from the warm water by the cape.)
We also just had a chilly night last night. I wouldn't expect warm water until about 2pm today.
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lots of rain water.
lack of constant sun.
i can recall summers living in beverly or manchester-b-t-s
when the ocean -never- got warm
-in spite- of an extremely hot summer.
northern atlantic currents are just a bitch.
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"... "warm" water ..."
but warm is relative and I'm talking as a Mainer who swam in the ocean and thought "hey... this isn't so bad" and sometimes had reason to wonder "what are those whimps over there from NJ complaining about? and why are they wearing sweaters in august?" :*p
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You're probably far tougher than I am at this now. Youth lends a certain invulnerability to this stuff -- with age practice is required and I think I'm at "warm bubble bath" in my cold-water tolerance skills. I would probably need "certain things" surgically removed from my head if I tried to go into the ocean in the early AM...
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the first few years i lived up here
i never went in the ocean.
to me it was always cold.
one crazy first semester at gordon
i got hooked up with some guys
who were into going to singing beach
in the dark
and riding skim boards.
typically in the buff.
we did that straight through late october.
now i find ocean water in NJ unrefreshingly warm :)
i've slept outdoors
in a sweatshirt
in august
in maine
but generally
i like the weather up there a fair bit.
after all,
i moved up here to get away from the heat.
(this has been utterly thwarted by moving to RI
where the gulf stream -slams-
straight into the southern coast
and up the harbor which divides the state in half,
thus resulting in radically warmer weather
than even boston,
a mere 50 miles away,
but hidden from the warm water by the cape.)
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