>>2758270I feel a little better in lakes, but swift rivers are best. I grew up near a lake and we used to go to the little muddy local beach there and it was always murky and full of leeches and shit. And then the ocean is even worse.
One time at the ocean in Maine my brother and I got really bold (we would have been around 11 and 13 probably) and we swam out past the waves, and it was super peaceful even though the water was well above our heads. We started diving down to the seabed and even with your eyes closed you could grab these gigantic clams off the sea flood that were the size of a small purse. At one point while we were just floating and treading water something massive hit my legs and knocked me upside-down in the water and it hit him too. We noped the fuck out all the way back to the beach and we both got stung to shit by a bloom of jellifish that were are all bunched together near shore caught in the wave swells. It went from being a wonderful ocean-beach day to a nightmare. He still had one of the gigantic clams in his hand though and everyone on the beach was impressed while my mother sprayed the shit out of us with solarcaine
