What do you prefer? Swimming in a lake or in the sea?
By taiwanlife
@taiwanlife (746)
Philippines
April 3, 2013 9:11am CST
I came from a mountainous town but I like the sea better. I liked swimming in rivers when I was growing up. Waterfalls were my playgrounds in the summer time. But when I got acquainted with the sea then everything changed.
I was in Switzerland once and was dying to swim but there was only the huge beautiful lake to go to. I was imagining things that could just pull me down under the unknown. I am more familiar with how underwater looks like in the ocean than in the lake so my imagination is really running wild while I was swimming. The water as well smelled like moss. I swam one time in an Austrian lake and it felt and smelled the same.
The sea, with its continues waves, just looks more alive and easier to get along with than a silent mysterious lake.
12 responses
@rog0322 (2829)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
3 Apr 13
Hi,
I have never been in a lake, it is far away for that matter. Being in a coastal town, it had always been the sea that is my favorite swimming ground. I may prefer the sea being the one that I grew up with than the "mysterious lake" as you have described. I also like the underwater view of the corals in the sea, different forms and rainbow colored under the bright sunlight and glowing in the night time. I understand they are not present in freshwater systems. That can compensate enough for the stinging salt in seawater.
@taiwanlife (746)
• Philippines
3 Apr 13
Oh how I miss the sea really. It is not where I want to live but it is where I want to die.:)
@Adoniah (7513)
• United States
3 Apr 13
I much prefer swimming in he ocean...Being from Fl., one always keeps the thought of an Alligator munching on one...
Not to mention the multiple varieties of poisonous snakes that inhabit all water areas. Yup, the ocean is much nicer...
However, I love canoeing in all of our wonderful spring runs...
Not to mention the multiple varieties of poisonous snakes that inhabit all water areas. Yup, the ocean is much nicer...
However, I love canoeing in all of our wonderful spring runs...@taiwanlife (746)
• Philippines
3 Apr 13
Seas has this sunny side kind of feeling than a dramatic lonesome atmosphere in the lake!:)
@ctryhnny (3460)
• United States
3 Apr 13
I hate salt water and prefer to swim in lakes or ponds. I don't live far from the Atlantic Ocean and it's nice to look at but it is usually too dirty to swim in even if I liked it. I'll opt for the silent mysterious lake any time.
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
4 Apr 13
Most of all I adore swimming and snorkeling in a tropical location from a white sandy beach that has gently waving palm trees. I find the water warm and inviting. It is aquamarine and in a pristine state. I must have gently waves or it gets rather scary. I have been to beaches like that in the Seychelles, the Maldives, Australia, Samoa, the Cook Islands, Fiji and French Polynesia. I love walking along a picturesque seashore. I am less familiar with swimming in a lake.
@jambi462 (4576)
• United States
4 Apr 13
I haven't swam in the ocean a whole lot and maybe that's why I get pretty irritated by the salt water, but when I went swimming in the ocean when I was a lot younger it really burned my eyes a lot. I remember going snorkeling with my mom in Florida and getting the water in my mouth didn't really taste all that great either. However being able to look at all of the beautiful aquatic life below me was pretty great.
I grew up swimming in lakes though as I am from Michigan and there are lakes everywhere here and we are surrounded by five of the biggest lakes in the country. Perhaps if I got more used to swimming in salt water it wouldn't hurt my eyes as much.
@tanvirnabi123 (126)
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4 Apr 13
I am always caught in a nostalgic mood when the matters of swimming knocks my mind. I was nearly drowned in a river at my boyhood period. At last I was saved and I learnt swimming well. But I do not like to appreciate myself to swim in the sea or lake. I love swimming in the river.
@bryanwmc (1051)
• Malaysia
4 Apr 13
To me a person from a tropical country , the question is a no brainer, since the sea is so accesible and i have been working in an industry where i dived into the coral reefs almost everyday for more than ten years, but when i am not doing that, i still loved to just go for a quick swim in the warm waters, nothing like it, a feeling of freedom and also respect for the immensity of the ocean no swimming pool or lake can match.
@cairalyssa (1402)
• Malaysia
3 Apr 13
Hi there..
i prefer the sea.. atleast i cud enjoy underwater scenery.. because i get to see, i get to stay away from danger at the moment i notice any scary objects coming towards me.. I love skin dive and snorkelling!!
But.. swimming on the lake??? NOO!!!!! 
i cant see what's down there.. Who knows what creatures has been living underneath the lakes.. atleast scary animals in the sea always live far at the bottom..
I have same opinion like you! 
i cant see what's down there.. Who knows what creatures has been living underneath the lakes.. atleast scary animals in the sea always live far at the bottom..
I have same opinion like you!
@Mantohave (83)
• Trinidad And Tobago
4 Apr 13
Best ever for me was a river here in Trinidad where the water was so clean and pure and cold and fresh and ran over your body like a dream and I sat in the river for an hour just enjoying the water.
@XtremeGaming (742)
• South Africa
4 Apr 13
I pefer the sea because the lake has mud ground and I don't like that
@ShivenderRajput1 (110)
• India
3 Apr 13
well i havent had the chance to swim in the sea . Only few time in lake. So i wud love to have a go in the sea. It wud b a different experience. I am also frm a hill station area so much more acquainted with swimming in the local rivers over here
@yengnimcdo (217)
• Philippines
4 Apr 13
i prefer to swim in the river cause it has a cold water. hihi. just kidding. i prefer in the sea, there are more dangerous in lakes. it's more easier to float in salty seas, therefore you can save yourself from drowning.
