Can you swim ?

I can't swim and have never wanted to, I agree with camper 6 and hate water in my eyes, ears etc. I like to paddle in the sea but would not swim in it, you never know what you might swallow !
 

Swimming is arguably the best exercise one can get. Being suspended in water with no impacts, the body just extends and flexes till you have fluid (pun intended) motion. Being Pisces, I prefer water to air, earth, or fire. In my element...I excell. Our pool's pump and filter push enough water to create a circular current. I can swim in place, and switching the stroke...I can involve just about every muscle in my body. Anyone can learn to swim...ya gotta wanna.
 

My parents built a cabin on this lake when I was 2. Even before that,they came and stayed here at a resort on this lake. I can`t remember a time when I couldn`t swim. I didn`t take formal swim lessons til I was 7 but I could swim long before that.
 
I use to swim pretty good, but not a style or stroke that anyone else does - kind of half a side-stroke.
Then I learned to SCUBA dive and luved that.
But now I don't enjoy swimming w/o a snorkle, so don't do it much.
But I am learning to kayak, so I should practice some...
 
Like you, I disliked the crawl stroke and refused to learn it. I like keeping my head up out of the water and watching what's going on. This didn't stop me from having had a long career with swimming, obsessively so when I was a kid, then a long mini-career as a middle-age person, lap swimming a lot, and even later doing some long-distance swimming, if going the length of a 3.5 mile long lake could be called long distance. The crawl ? Garbage !
 
Yes I can swim. I thought I was pretty good too until a friend of mine talked me into going out for the High School swimming team. I was the slowest one there. There was this one little girl about 1/2 my size that was the next to the slowest. And she beat me every single time. It was humiliating. I only stayed a couple of weeks and then quit, but my friend stuck it out. I guess by doing that I demoted Kay, that was her name, to the slowest swimmer spot. But to her credit, she hung in there. The team went on to lose every single meet that year by scores like 68-22. So, slowest swimmer to try out for the team that finished dead last in the conference. That was me.

But there was one time when I had to swim for my life. Well, kinda sorta maybe. One night a bunch of us were heading out to Caladesi Island near Clearwater. It was in October when the mullet school up and we were going out there to do some cast netting. There were 14 of us in two boats. I was in the first boat and a friend of mines dad was driving. We were going wide open through Clearwater bay and it was night and his dad was using a big flashlight as a headlight. All of a sudden a concrete channel marker came into view. It was at most 10 feet ahead of the boat when we saw it and there was no time to react so we hit it. It tore a big hole in the left front and right away the boat started to fill up with water. Then it started to roll and we all jumped out. It didn't sink all the way, just rolled over upside down. There was a pretty good part of the hull out of the water. I did not like the idea of being in salt water at night because we used to catch sharks near there. So I swam a few strokes and got by butt up on that hull out of the water ASAP.

It was no more than a minute or two before our second boat picked us up. As I said there was a total of 14 of us, The first boat that I had been in was an 18 footer. Boat number two was 14 feet. So when all 14 of us got into that smaller boat the waterline was only a few inches below the gunwale. So we had to take it pretty slow on the way back to the place where we had launched. Needless to say the fishing trip was cancelled.
 

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