Are you an "open water" or a harbor person?
Are you an "open water" or a harbor person?
I am so glad we moved from MN to CA because I get to see the Pacific Ocean so often. I think growing up in Milwaukee near Lake Michigan made me love being around a big body of water. However, I've noticed I gravitate to the harbors instead of more rugged shorelines. I love the elegant sailboats docked there, the pelicans and seagulls, the smell of the water, the shops and restaurants and activity. Others gravitate to the rougher coast line. I'm wondering if there's a certain kind of person who is drawn to one or the other. What draws you and how does that correspond to your personality?
- Kevina Oyatedorposted 11 years ago
0 Hmm. This is an interesting question (for me, anyway). It it's water I like it. I do like lakes, ponds, etc. They're pretty. Still, I'm definitely an ocean person.
How that corresponds to my own personality, I'm not sure.
What draws me to preferring the ocean is that it's connected, rather than an isolated little body of water. The ocean is stable in its "ocean-way", but, of course, it's incredibly active and powerful (also in its own, "ocean-way" ). Ocean air is clean and fresh. The tide and waves change, but they're also constant and faithful. The Atlantic Ocean (where I live) tends to be gray a lot of the times, so it often looks stormy and powerful and amazingly crisp and clean. The ocean always gets the best view of sunrises and sunsets. The ocean where I live can look blue or green at times, of course, but those aren't the times that come to my mind when I think of the ocean (probably because it's gray more often than anything else, as far as I can tell ).
The ocean, to me, is limitless and free. It meets the sky in a way that dry land (other than mountains) does/can (but mountains don't move while the ocean never stops moving). Always moving and changing, always connected, always free, sometimes stormy, always strong and powerful, gaining sparkles from morning and afternoon sun, and always having the best view of sunrises and sunsets... These things are what the ocean are to me; and I suppose, they're either things that I like about what I hope I am sometimes, or else things I hope I am and/or at least one day I can be and always stay).
For all its roar and crashing waves, and for all the quieter splishes and splashes closest to shore, the ocean is, in its own way, silent and strong and stable. Some people feel that the ocean calls them. For me, the ocean is more something that doesn't call me. It's just always there for me to visit; both silent and booming - where the water sparkles dance to the song of seagulls, the wordless whisper of the breezes, and sometimes the roaring storm.Lisa, I know what you mean. I'm becoming a bit addicted to this answer page and feel a sense of community suddenly that I didn't before
Have a lovely Sunday.
I believe at least to this "son of a son of a sailor" I would prefer both, that would be both harbour and open water. That is, I see them interconnected significantly. My grandfather and great grandfather were sea captains who sailed the Atlantic Ocean from Harbourville, Nova Scotia (aptly named) to harbours south in the United States and beyond.
The reason why they were located in Harbourville was significant. Not only is it a wonderful protective harbour for their schooners but perhaps more significantly because of the colossal tide (50 foot rise and fall) the bay of Fundy acted like a conveyor belt moving their schooners in and out of the "Fundy" into the open water of the North Atlantic, negating any doldrums effect. When I am in "open water" I can imagine one of my great grandather's schooners, perhaps the Misty Mourn sailing beside me coaching me on to safe-harbour...
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