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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The ocean is indeed beyond beautiful. I'm not a marine biologist, but I went to Jamaica for my honeymoon and truly appreciated it there. A lot of my time was spent just ... Admiring the water.

I remember a Jamaican local commenting that she'd seen the ocean around the USA in movies and wouldn't swim in the ocean around the country based on that.

Also, I got punched in the face by a fish while I was down there.

Beautiful, though.

[–] edgesmash@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Also, I got punched in the face by a fish while I was down there.

Please elaborate.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

There was a cluster of fish and the water was so clear that you could see them from the surface, which I thought was cool. Some of them were even jumping out of the water, which I'd never seen in person before! Because of that, I worked my way to around the middle of the cluster and crouched, then just kind of settled down to watch. Eventually, I guess I had been still long enough that they forgot I was there and started jumping around me. When I was done surveiling them, I stood up and turned around, only to receive a fish directly to the face.

It was so unexpected (to me and, I presume, to the fish) that my first thought was that someone had thrown a rock at me, but my newly minted wife clarified that it was, in fact, a fish.

[–] Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

not OP but I've been slapped in the noggin clean by a nice big salmon while fishing. was quite the nice greeting. I've also been jizzed on as well.