Doom scroll, Florida ocean water 100+ degrees. . .
It cant be good to have 100-degree ocean temps. That makes soup.
I have never really enjoyed southern or Caribbean waters.
I like the North Atlantic.
Give me breath-catching ice-cold water to swim in. I have always liked a plunge in the fridged. It wakes and erases your mind, races your heart, tightens your stomach, tones your abs and ass.
The times I swam in the Bahamas were pleasant, but the memory doesn't stay with me, like my last plunge into the North Atlantic.
Their Carib beaches were beautiful to others but only a passing novelty to me. The lure never stuck.
The time I swam off of South Carolina in April when all the locals thought I was insane as they felt the water was too cold, but I felt it like a dirty, cooled bath.
That ocean water felt oily, unclean, and not nearly the same salt brine as at home.
The only other place I can recall enjoying swimming beside the Atlantic would be a lake in New Hampshire and a spring-fed pond in the Berkshires.
The lake was always warm but still refreshing, and the water so clean, the spring-fed pond crystal clear and as cold as the Atlantic had ever felt…
