In open ocean swims, you better be aware of "Seabathers Eruptions," which for the first time our family experienced this past weekend. The bloody swimsuit will catch all kinds of stingy vermin that will haunt you for weeks. Welts all over the body where the swim suit covered. If you are a victim in the water, it is best to remove your suit in the salt water and rinse off there completely. Then take your freshwater shower, Zyrtec Chewable, and Triamcinolone. Even the school my daughter goes to got excited, so I had to have the Dermatologist send a letter that it wasn't contagious. Throw that swimsuit away, for the dead vermins can still sting and it is hard to wash away. Swim naked from now on in the ocean. clyde
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I have been swimming and surfing in the Pacific Ocean off of California, Mexico and Hawaii for about 35 of my 49 years and have never experienced anything that you guys are talking about. I figured it must be an east coast issue until I read Clyde's comments.
Where the heck are you guys swimming?
Not that I mind swimming naked . . . kinda like it . . . just nothing "skinny" about it.
Maybe we should start "naked" divisions in the 2006 ocean race seasons? Lock up the kids and avert the eyes, there's a race on!
carl
I have been swimming and surfing in the Pacific Ocean off of California, Mexico and Hawaii for about 35 of my 49 years and have never experienced anything that you guys are talking about. I figured it must be an east coast issue until I read Clyde's comments.
Where the heck are you guys swimming?
Not that I mind swimming naked . . . kinda like it . . . just nothing "skinny" about it.
Maybe we should start "naked" divisions in the 2006 ocean race seasons? Lock up the kids and avert the eyes, there's a race on!
carl
