Widening the lens to living, visiting, or vacationing along larger bodies of water hits the jackpot when it comes to measurable health (physical and mental) benefits.
Mr. Hartmann, I first visited Pentwater 65 years ago, and I have returned too many times to recount. I have also been vacationing on Beaver island for the same amount of time. I have owned and sailed boats on the Great lakes almost all my life. My favorite was a 26 ft. Westerly Centaur, made on the Isl. of White in the Solent where the Brits have been building boats for a millennium. I met a man who single handed one from Malta to Sault Sainte Marie. Several have circumnavigated. That incredibly rugged boat put me and my wife and kids in contact with that ephemeral something you are talking about. We stayed on it for months at a time; sailing all around the lakes in Summers as the kids were growing up. We lived on Walleyes, Perch, and Northern pikes. One experiences something close to magic while one is hanging over the gunnels, watching the bow of one's boat kick up a bow-wave as it cleaves the water, wind filling the sails. The smell, the view, the feeling. One must experience it to understand. I believe you are correct also about the calming effect of aquariums.
As a boy I lived 9 years in Holland where both wooden Chris Crafts like yours and steel and aluminum Roamers were built. The fathers of my friends were commercial fisherman. Boats are in my head. Lake Michigan is in my heart. My wife and I once tried to walk the beach from Ludington to Manistee where Centurys were made. We failed. I have restored a 22 ft., three cockpit 1930s Chris Craft runabout and a 16 ft., 1950s Century open runabout. Both made of mahogany as I'm sure your Constellation was.
Often I have wondered why some of us love to experience this feeling while boating. Yet some others are terrified by it. There might be something to what you are saying here. Could this magical feeling of water be built into some of us? I frankly doubt it. But we can dream.
Incidentally, hair on the head and genitalia of humans act as cooling fins in the heat and insulation in the cold. Both myelinated nerves and genitals are sensitive to temperature, especially gonads.
Mountain air may have a higher dose of negative ions than near large bodies of water. The mechanism involves water flow and especially water falls.
Coming near to a major waterfall you can see a plume of spray. In that are huge amounts of negative ions. Maybe that’s why places like Iceland with over 10,000 waterfalls are so happy despite crazy weather and darkness.
Mr. Hartmann, I first visited Pentwater 65 years ago, and I have returned too many times to recount. I have also been vacationing on Beaver island for the same amount of time. I have owned and sailed boats on the Great lakes almost all my life. My favorite was a 26 ft. Westerly Centaur, made on the Isl. of White in the Solent where the Brits have been building boats for a millennium. I met a man who single handed one from Malta to Sault Sainte Marie. Several have circumnavigated. That incredibly rugged boat put me and my wife and kids in contact with that ephemeral something you are talking about. We stayed on it for months at a time; sailing all around the lakes in Summers as the kids were growing up. We lived on Walleyes, Perch, and Northern pikes. One experiences something close to magic while one is hanging over the gunnels, watching the bow of one's boat kick up a bow-wave as it cleaves the water, wind filling the sails. The smell, the view, the feeling. One must experience it to understand. I believe you are correct also about the calming effect of aquariums.
As a boy I lived 9 years in Holland where both wooden Chris Crafts like yours and steel and aluminum Roamers were built. The fathers of my friends were commercial fisherman. Boats are in my head. Lake Michigan is in my heart. My wife and I once tried to walk the beach from Ludington to Manistee where Centurys were made. We failed. I have restored a 22 ft., three cockpit 1930s Chris Craft runabout and a 16 ft., 1950s Century open runabout. Both made of mahogany as I'm sure your Constellation was.
Often I have wondered why some of us love to experience this feeling while boating. Yet some others are terrified by it. There might be something to what you are saying here. Could this magical feeling of water be built into some of us? I frankly doubt it. But we can dream.
Incidentally, hair on the head and genitalia of humans act as cooling fins in the heat and insulation in the cold. Both myelinated nerves and genitals are sensitive to temperature, especially gonads.
That is why I moved to Maui 11 years ago. If I didn't go on my daily beach walk I think I would be less happy and less healthy.
Mr. Beidner, I have no doubt the beech on Maui makes you happier and healthier. You are lucky man.
Mountain air may have a higher dose of negative ions than near large bodies of water. The mechanism involves water flow and especially water falls.
Coming near to a major waterfall you can see a plume of spray. In that are huge amounts of negative ions. Maybe that’s why places like Iceland with over 10,000 waterfalls are so happy despite crazy weather and darkness.