I was just looking over the member map, and my mind is blown to see that the majority of the mermaids here seem to be from landlocked or cold places-and yet there are only 6 of us in Australia! Makes me think that the closer you live to the ocean, the more you take it for granted! Everyone come to MY place, lol. We'll have a ball!
Yep! I'm in England and live miles from the seaI would love to buy a monofin and a tail but apart from renting the local swimming pool out, which is a bit pricy! I'd have no where to use them
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I've got a lake but ours is dirty
The SeaGlass Siren
True! lolOriginally Posted by mermaidwhisperer
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I was away from San Diego in PORTLAND for three years. Worse three years of my life, no sea and a polluted river attached to a sewage treatment plant. I have a crazy good sense of smell, so had I wanted to to to anywhere near that end of the river, I'd be out of luck. But I didn't... I kept wanting it to feel like the sea, and it didn't.
Never again. I will never leave the coast again.
We have rain! lots of rain! XD
I'm one (if not the only one) of the lucky mers here in Belgium who found a pool where I can swim with my tail
We have so many beaches in our town that they always look empty. The water is a beautiful temperature and it's almost always sunny.
But the water is also full of things that might accidentally kill you too!
We're even having problems with crocodiles. We've had a lot of wet, cyclonic summers and they keep getting washed into the main beaches.A few years ago Mackay went under in a flood and a massive croc got stuck in the gooseponds-in the centre of town! They were trying to catch it for a year, and it managed to breed. Add sharks and box jellyfish and there aren't too many places I feel safe swimming. Not that it stops me-but I'm paranoid the whole time.
It's dead in the middle of winter right now-too cold to swim for those up us accustomed to the warmth, but it's probably not cold for a lot of you. I'm getting around in jeans and a shirt and sandals.
I'm down in South Australia and at the moment its FREEZING. Like, 11 degrees C freezing. Which is cold for me. haha!! I'd love to live in QLD!! Even with all the nasties in the water! The worst we have is great white sharks...which is pretty bad, but thats only one thing to be afraid of, not dozens! XD
'The worst we have is great white sharks' ha ha that's kind of the worst ever!
It's been 11 here a few times in the past 2 months...at 4 am. Bloody cold. But the days are at least 20!
I'm in Victoria. Since it's Winter, it gets so cold in my room that my breath actually starts to mist!!! So definitely no swimming until Spring and Summer! Ugh. I miss it. And I really want a tail. Good to see another Aussie mermaid though.
Thanks! I love Victoria. You guys have beautiful architecture. Love romantic buildings.
A lot of ours are new, or on stilts. Looks like a Dali painting sometimes, lol
There's something lovely about the look of old Queenslanders, though. The stilts are great for floods, too xD
Are you freezing in Brisbane today? Mackay is like a wind tunnel!
Haha yeah it's pretty cold xD the sun's out, but it doesn't really seem to help. Jacket and stockings and boots it is!
Here in Antwerp (Belgium) is a heatwave at the moment and I can't go swimming this weekend
I'm just down the coast from Brisbane, and I go swimming at least twice a week
Yes, at least there are indoor pools here in SA too. The pools themselves are heated- but the air INSIDE the buildings aren't! haha! So if I go for a swim, I have to wrap myself in towels to avoid hypothermia and run to the hot showers. haha! Cant WAIT for summer- at least we are almost through winter, the days are getting longer again! And I just moved to 2 minutes from the beach!
I just can't swim in this weather. Well, I'm flat out with my book anyway but I'm not a hard core enough surfer yet to brave it. I get anxious about that 30 seconds between getting out of the shower and getting into my Pj's!
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