Ant, dearest, you are assuming that most Americans get to the beach, I think. Recall, if you will, the geography of the US. Not as much coastline proportionally as in Australia. The lists above are what we usually do when we do actually get to a beach, but there are folks who live their whole lives in the US without seeing an ocean more than once. Sometimes never. :P
We have lots of space in the middle too, but nobody lives there on account of it is too far from the beach. Right now I live the farthest I have ever lived away from the ocean and that's only because I live on a bay, so the actual real ocean is like an hour away. The beach is still only about 10 minutes though, but it's not like a real beach because the waves are small.
My closest real beach is probably the one made immortal by the classic film 'Point Break' starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, Bells Beach, though the beach used in the film was actually in South Australia. I really wish I had a Point Break icon to use for this post now, because that movie is hilarious.
How do people in America not get all claustrophobic and go crazy?
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
antpower
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2006-10-19 10:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-20 11:30 am (UTC)My closest real beach is probably the one made immortal by the classic film 'Point Break' starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, Bells Beach, though the beach used in the film was actually in South Australia. I really wish I had a Point Break icon to use for this post now, because that movie is hilarious.
How do people in America not get all claustrophobic and go crazy?