# Your preferred "body" of water for summer fun? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 22, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-preferred-body-of-water-for-summer-fun/586438 "2011-06-22T15:27:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-preferred-body-of-water-for-summer-fun/586438/41 "2011-06-23T11:44:59Z")
A glass of tonic water with added gin. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-preferred-body-of-water-for-summer-fun/586438/42 "2011-06-23T20:20:15Z")
> [@Floater](#): > > A glass of tonic water with added gin. **Floater** wins! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-preferred-body-of-water-for-summer-fun/586438/43 "2011-06-23T21:18:29Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > Definitely a pool. > > Beaches would be fine if it wasnā€™t for all that sand and salt. Lots of beaches without salt, at least around here. šŸ™‚ I picked ā€œlakeā€. I grew up in Whitby, a town on the north shore of Lake Ontario. We would go to the beach for a break, but Whitby Beach is stony. For true summer fun, weā€™d go east to wide white beaches with warm shallow water, like Cobourg Beach or Outlet Beach at Sandbanks Provincial Park. The alternative was to go north to the cottage, located on a lake near Algonquin Park. There, we enjoyed the fresh air and beautiful scenery, and our cottage had a tiny beach of multicoloured granite sand (the different minerals in the local granite bedrock had apparently worn to grains of different sizes, and the water sorted them by size, so the beach had irregular stripes of black, purple, red, and yellow). Lately I have fallen in love with the beauty of the [Bruce Peninsula](http://www.edto.net/photo_grotto.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-preferred-body-of-water-for-summer-fun/586438/44 "2011-06-23T23:16:03Z")
My grandfatherā€™s pool is the main gathering place for that side of the family, at least during the summer. (Other seasons, itā€™s still their house, but indoors). ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-preferred-body-of-water-for-summer-fun/586438/45 "2011-06-24T02:23:43Z")
Here in Missouri, drunken river float trips are the standard weekend getaway for most people. Followed closely by trips to Lake of the Ozarks. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-preferred-body-of-water-for-summer-fun/586438/46 "2011-06-24T15:43:34Z")
> [@RetroVertigo](#): > > Here in Missouri, drunken river float trips are the standard weekend getaway for most people. Followed closely by trips to Lake of the Ozarks. Sure beats the pool for noodelinā€™. ---
**Author:** ![Rex\_Goliath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rex\_Goliath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rex_Goliath)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-preferred-body-of-water-for-summer-fun/586438/47 "2011-06-24T18:06:55Z")
I live on the beach in San Diego, and one thing Iā€™m looking forward to most is a dip in the river when I get home. Thereā€™s just nothing like floating down the river with a beer in your hand. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-preferred-body-of-water-for-summer-fun/586438/48 "2011-06-24T18:11:39Z")
I prefer the ocean, but havenā€™t been swimming in one since I was a kid. We go to the lake every year, which is nice (and private). ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-preferred-body-of-water-for-summer-fun/586438/49 "2011-06-24T18:14:17Z")
Barrier islands along the east coast of the USA. Ocean, inlets, waterways, bays, etc. Your poor land-locked sons-of-bitchesā€¦ I weep for you. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-preferred-body-of-water-for-summer-fun/586438/50 "2011-06-24T18:25:10Z")
> [@](#): > > _From Mary Prankster_ > > Thereā€™ll be Oā€™s fans > Goyn dahneoshinhon! Donā€™t worry, the right people will get it. The ocean. But then again itā€™s only a few miles away. Thisā€™ll be the fifth weekend in a row swimming in the Atlantic. > [@](#): > > _From Everclear_ > > We can live beside the ocean > Leave it far behind > Swim out past the breakers > Watch the world die ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-preferred-body-of-water-for-summer-fun/586438/51 "2011-06-25T11:35:02Z")
Beach/ocean. This year, the Mediterranean (southern France). ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-preferred-body-of-water-for-summer-fun/586438/52 "2011-06-25T15:21:12Z")
I voted for Beach/Ocean. Second favorite? Waterbed. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-preferred-body-of-water-for-summer-fun/586438/53 "2011-06-25T16:13:18Z")
When I lived at the shore in Va Beach, I preferred the ocean/beach combo, when I live away from the shore I prefer lake/beach. Unfortunately now, with my various handicaps, the safest option for me is pool/hot tub. I do not trust my ability to deal with surf and possible tides. Granted I am fat enough I float like a freaking cork, but getting washed out to sea is a definite hazard I do not choose to deal with. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-preferred-body-of-water-for-summer-fun/586438/54 "2011-06-25T16:16:54Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > Pools are the best when theyā€™re private, but the drop to the bottom of the list when theyā€™re public. This is a quality view, would like to tout it as my own. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-preferred-body-of-water-for-summer-fun/586438.md?page=2)