Have you seen the ocean?

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  • leelee_1974
    leelee_1974 Posts: 24
    This post makes me want to drop everything and go now, play, collect shells, swim. I've seen the Indian and Atlantic oceans but really want to see the Pacific. Every night I go to sleep to a recording of sounds of the ocean. I'm about 2 hours from the sea in the UK but right in the centre, far from the coast. I think after this post I'll be daydreaming for the rest of the day...
  • Ro0kins_Wedding
    Ro0kins_Wedding Posts: 295
    I get to see the sea and the countryside every day. I love it.

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  • annemckee
    annemckee Posts: 170 Member
    I live on the Shetland Islands - I think we are never further than 3 miles from the ocean/sea. There is a place where the road cuts through a narrow part with the Atlantic on one side and the North Sea on the other.
  • deadstarsunburn
    deadstarsunburn Posts: 1,337 Member
    I've seen it, but I live in Michigan and I know lots of people who never have.
  • mkmfrog
    mkmfrog Posts: 49 Member
    Yep, have had my feet in the Atlantic, Pacific and the ARCTIC oceans! Not sure when I will make out to the Indian....
  • DisneyMommy
    DisneyMommy Posts: 281 Member
    I've always lived near the coast. I can't imagine living in a landlocked state. I'd go nuts!
  • Bella3119
    Bella3119 Posts: 104
    I can't imagine mylife without the beach. We live in SoFL and I've never been more than 15 minutes away from the beach. My girls and I even went on Christmas Day when is was a cool 79 degrees.
  • EmCarroll1990
    EmCarroll1990 Posts: 2,832 Member
    I've seen it, only once though, when I went to Cuba. It was so awesome and clear and warm, we were all just laughing like idiots when we got in.
  • LoraF83
    LoraF83 Posts: 15,694 Member
    I've only seen it once. I was 18 and in FL for spring break. I haven't had the chance to go back. I did spend a lot of time vacationing near Lake Huron as a child, which is so vast that you can't see anything....same effect as the ocean.
  • TammyW18
    TammyW18 Posts: 244 Member
    I live 5 miles from the ocean! However, I also live in a tourist town... so Ocean yes place to park NO!
  • maieranne77
    maieranne77 Posts: 191 Member
    It's a 20 hour drive but I've seen it twice! :) We are starting annual or bi-annual trips to HHI from Iowa with our kids. First time was last year but we fell in love with it! I so wish we lived closer so it wouldn't be so expensive/time consuming to get there every year.
  • skylark94
    skylark94 Posts: 2,036 Member
    I have seen it a couple of times, but the Texas Ocean is way diffrent from the pretty ocean. The Texas Ocean is nasty and brown, not pretty. I went on a cruise to Cozumel, and it was beautiful. My husband is 30 years old and he saw the ocean for the first time last summer! but it was the brown Texas ocean in Galveston. I plan on taking him to see the beautiful ocean some time really soon!

    Forgive my ignorance, but what is the Texas Ocean? Are you referring to the Gulf of Mexico?
  • MalibuBeth
    MalibuBeth Posts: 87 Member
    I see it every day!
  • Bentley2718
    Bentley2718 Posts: 1,689 Member
    I live 30-45min from the Gulf of Mexico. This is the furthest I've ever lived from the ocean. :(
  • btdublin
    btdublin Posts: 250 Member
    OMG you yanks are crazy. I can't believe you don't travel to the bloody edges of your own country at least! Most people saying they've only seen the Atlantic, Pacific or Gulf if any. Travel abroad, broaden your horizons people!
  • stroken96
    stroken96 Posts: 436 Member
    I could take a blanket or a lawn chair and sit there all day Love the Ocean (Oregon Coast)
  • Mom2rh
    Mom2rh Posts: 612 Member
    Pacific, Atlantic, Caribbean, Mediterranean, and Gulf of Thailand. Have gone scuba diving in all but Mediterranean or Atlantic.
  • GuruOnAMountain
    GuruOnAMountain Posts: 489 Member
    When I first seen this question, I thought that it sounded a bit crazy. I guess living in Britain where you're never too far from the coast even if you live smack bang in the middle of it, we're lucky compared to the USA where you can be pretty much landlocked.

    Living in Britain as well means being close to Europe and most people here go holidays to European beach resorts at least a few times in their lives if not every year so we see plenty of the sea/ocean.
  • EricNCSU
    EricNCSU Posts: 699 Member
    Atlantic a hundred times. Sadly the one time I went to the west coast (anahiem CA) wasn't close enough to see the pacific.
  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,871 Member
    OMG you yanks are crazy. I can't believe you don't travel to the bloody edges of your own country at least! Most people saying they've only seen the Atlantic, Pacific or Gulf if any. Travel aboard, broader your horizons people!

    Are you serious? The state I live in is 3x the size of England, geographically. I've been coast to coast and border to border in the US. That is a LOT of territory to cover!

    But lend me a few thousand and I'll happily broaden my horizons!
  • LastMinuteMama
    LastMinuteMama Posts: 590 Member
    OMG you yanks are crazy. I can't believe you don't travel to the bloody edges of your own country at least! Most people saying they've only seen the Atlantic, Pacific or Gulf if any. Travel aboard, broader your horizons people!

    Ok, this Yank will list some places she has seen "the ocean" so you don't think we're all so provincial. Been to the West Coast, East Coast (maine to florida), Nova Scotia, Mexico, Thailand, Ireland, England, South Korea and Japan...and nope I wasn't in the military.
  • mello
    mello Posts: 817 Member
    Nothing like Florida's Emerald Coast!:heart:
  • SassyCalyGirl
    SassyCalyGirl Posts: 1,932 Member
    I grew up in Napa Valley California-lived in New York-Florida and Puerto Rico. I now live on the lake in Michigan-can't imagine not living near big water.
  • RDalton84
    RDalton84 Posts: 207
    OMG you yanks are crazy. I can't believe you don't travel to the bloody edges of your own country at least! Most people saying they've only seen the Atlantic, Pacific or Gulf if any. Travel aboard, broader your horizons people!

    Jusy FYI the United States is a HUGE country lol takes a long time to drive and it is very costy. A lot of people don't have the time and/or money for a 20+ hour trip to the coast and for many people flying isn't an option either...
  • LastMinuteMama
    LastMinuteMama Posts: 590 Member
    ....I have to LOL at the fact the "Have you seen the ocean?" could spark emotions (myself included) ....only on MFP : )
  • SassyCalyGirl
    SassyCalyGirl Posts: 1,932 Member
    OMG you yanks are crazy. I can't believe you don't travel to the bloody edges of your own country at least! Most people saying they've only seen the Atlantic, Pacific or Gulf if any. Travel abroad, broaden your horizons people!

    buy me a ticket!
  • the_journeyman
    the_journeyman Posts: 1,877 Member
    I've seen the ocean from many different views.

    JM
  • DQMD
    DQMD Posts: 193
    Atlantic, Pacific, Carribean, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Cheasepeake Bay etc.

    I have seen the Atlantic in all the Eastern Seaboard states: Maine, New Hampshire, Mass, RI, CT, NJ, DE, MD, VA, NC, SC, GA, and FL. I also have gone Scuba Diving in the Altantic from the Icey cold water of Mass/ME to the warm tropical water of the Florida Keys. I have wreck dived off the North Carolina coast and been 20 miles out for the good diving.
  • verapamil
    verapamil Posts: 94
    I live on a mile wide barrier island that sits between the Indian River and the Atlantic Ocean. I can hear the surf when my windows are open and my cars are continually covered in a layer of salty mist. I love it here!

    I'm from Merritt Island (live in WA now). You live in a great spot :-)
  • I1ahunt
    I1ahunt Posts: 72
    I Love the Ocean something very calminga nd soothing about it even when she is rough and stormy. i consider myself extremely luck to have been to many of them around the world.
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