My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The sea was at the bottom of my road, and I seemed to spend my childhood in it or on it, hearing, tasting, smelling it. Now, still, I need to be near water as often as possible.
I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea.
We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.
I pass my time in the open air on the beach when it is really heavy weather or when the boats go out fishing.
I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime.
I grew up in Hawaii so I was outside a lot playing in the water.
I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most feeling about is the Mississippi River, where I used to row and skate, ride on the ferry in childhood, watch the logs or just dream.
I do a lot of swimming, both in the ocean and in the pool.
I swim all the time at night - I've always been a water girl. It's a black-bottom pool and my pool light was out, and as I've done a thousand times I just kind of did a little seal dive. I saw a huge bright light and I literally thought, 'That's it.'
I've always lived by the ocean, and I always will. There's nothing like taking a walk and being able to smell the ocean breeze.