Thank youuuuu! 😄

Hahahahahaha! 😆

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😄 Yes, it is poetic. You are fortunate in that you ride in ships so young. At your age I was growing up in Kansas and the largest body of water was a 400 acre man made lake. Other than Wyandotte County Lake, everything else were just ponds.
Never saw the ocean until I was in college, and never boated until I moved to RI in the mid 1980s.
Congrats on getting your “sea legs” while you are young! 🙂

When you use a snorkel, there’s a learning curve to not trying to breathe underwater then blowing out any water when you surface (air gets trapped in the snorkel so, if you keep it upright, very little water goes into the shaft and you can surface without having to blow out water.

Glad to know I’m not the only person with an overboard fear! I figure it would be an evil employee taking advantage of the fact that I’m alone and my disappearance could go unnoticed for a loooong time!

The cruise ships I see docked in Long Beach (Carnival line) have HUUUGE water slides on the top deck. The ships make the Queen Mary look teeny! The Princess and (??) ships in San Pedro are some of the largest I’ve ever seen. Their top-heavy design is a massive safety risk and another reason I don’t wish to cruise! But the small ships in EU, traversing fjords and such, look nice! But I’m sure they don’t have crazy amenities or 24hrs of buffets!

Oh my gosh, I laughed way too hard-I also get the fear that someone will chuck me overboard… mostly my dad…

Snorkeling was fun! I honestly like it better without the mouthpiece, because then I can go underwater and examine the fish!

My dad saved all his money when he was younger, and now he runs a self-storage company up in northern New Brunswick!

Hope you get to go to Turks and Caicos one day! It really is beautiful!