PW #9

The water is quiet, so quiet is feels like its listening to you. When you turn your head there’s nothing but blue on every side, which stretches endlessly, deeper, and softer the more you observe. Making it feel like and infinite blue abyss. It can sound scary, however, it’s quit comforting, like if the ocean was wrapping itself around you.

In a place so big and empty it can make you feel like you are completely alone, but in reality, it is full of life. If you just keep swimming a little longer you will see it. Life. Either ponds of orcas or thousands of fishes swimming all together. You can also find colorful corals, starfish and crabs. You can stay close to shore, where the water if only 20ft tall and some sea animals may be curious about you, and the water is kept warm by the sun reflecting upon it. Or you can go beyond what you can see. Swimming in cold deep waters with the biggest animals. Like blue whales, or shark whales.

There’s also a faint taste of salt in your lips, and if you are not wearing goggles, the faint salty water becomes intense, like fire in the eyes. Every move you make is accompanied by a small wave in the ocean. Like if it’s following you, taking care of you. The deeper you go the harder your heart beat becomes. If for one second you just close your eyes and hear you will listen to everything, from your heart pounding louder to the waves of sound created by the animals communicating. Its so beautiful, some languages far older then humans, just pure sound waves, pure nature.

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