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Sandra Pawula's avatar

Cute story! You succeeded at making river swimming disgustingly unappealing. In Hawaii, we need to wear surf shoes in the ocean though cause we have lava rocks here!

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Megan Lee's avatar

πŸ˜‚ That crab back story though!!!

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Neela 🌢️'s avatar

Somewhere out there, a French crab family is living their best shoe-based life.

Bravo. Bravissimo. And also... never swimming in a river again. LOL

Have a good week ahead John.

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Neela 🌢️'s avatar

Thank you :)

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Teri Leigh πŸ’œ's avatar

I don’t like river swimming either. For all the same reasons. Loved the crab story, as a cancer crab birthday baby, I get it.

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JFT Beach πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ 🏊 πŸ§˜β€β™‚οΈ's avatar

Yup the struggle is real in da river!

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Tim Ebl πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦'s avatar

If I stuck to the sea for swimming, I’d only get in the water once a year! Some of us are so land locked it isn’t even funny.

But we never go in rivers, too rocky/ muddy/ infested with suspicious lurkers. I look for lakes and ponds.

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Tim Ebl πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦'s avatar

You might have nothing, or an angry beaver, or a disgruntled Canada Goose. Luck of the draw!

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JFT Beach πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ 🏊 πŸ§˜β€β™‚οΈ's avatar

I guess in Canada you may have bigger foe than simple little crabbies?

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Esther Stanway-Williams's avatar

Made me smile! 😊

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JFT Beach πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ 🏊 πŸ§˜β€β™‚οΈ's avatar

I'm happy with that πŸ™‚

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JFT Beach πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ 🏊 πŸ§˜β€β™‚οΈ's avatar

Wow I'd love to swim in Hawai one day!

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Sharon Young's avatar

1. The fact that I got your puns at the end. Just saying.

2. As soon as I read you had crabbers at the river I knew what was going to happen next... and that it probably wouldn't be pretty... At least here people know to actually not go in the water where people go crabbing. Or shrimping. Etc. But maybe that's a coastal South Carolina bit of "wisdom". Stick to the sea, my friend... stick to the sea... ;-)

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JFT Beach πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ 🏊 πŸ§˜β€β™‚οΈ's avatar

Stick to the sea I will Sharon for sure - have a great week.

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