REEF HOBBYIST... roughly how many miles are you from the nearest Ocean?

[ConnorTheSalty]

222 miles is the shortest route to get to the Gulf of California from Tempe, AZ.

 

[robert teseo]

i live on the bay, sandy was 4' into my house. ocean is about 1 1/2 miles as the crow flies.

 

[topjimmy]

OP here... living in the cornfields of Ohio.

So many of Y'all just a skip away from nice beaches actually gave me some sadness this afternoon bc I'm coming down off an emotional high if a 2wk vacation from Destin FL

I might cry myself to sleep tonight.... half kidding, I think


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I'm in Ohio too. At least we're hurricane free...

 

[guts11]

I don't live far from Montauk either. Love the place.
When I got up from this chair, I saw a fairly large snake slithering near that tree behind me.
I picked it up and brought it a little farther away because if my wife saw it, she would have gotten the horrors and never went there again.

South shore out here is beautiful. Looks like you are setup in a great spot as well

 

[tehmadreefer]

what the heck is as the crow flies???

 

[guts11]

what the heck is as the crow flies???

It’s a saying for in a straight line. Since birds can go directly from point a to point b.

 

[tehmadreefer]

It’s a saying for in a straight line. Since birds can go directly from point a to point b.

Oh, must be an old person saying lol

 

[Smarkow]

I think from my house (Toledo, OH) to the Baltimore inner harbor is the closest the ocean gets

Until global warming gives me beachfront property next century

 

[Crustaceon]

San Diego. 26 miles from the Pacific Ocean

 

[Eggs]

Oh, must be an old person saying lol

I’m old and from Ohio and have never heard of that one.
Must be a farm thing lol.

 

[User1]

I'm in California outside Sacramento. So about 80 or so miles depending on where I want to visit. I dive in Monterey so that trip is about 3 to 4 hours depending on traffic. I do both weekend and day trips for diving and find it not too tiring.

Only drawback is that the water is cold. Cold water diving is night and day different than the tropics but still some of the best diving in the world I believe. I don't get to see the fancy sps, lps, and sea fan stuff that I do in the tropics but I do see other forms of soft corals, fish, etc.

 

[K.miller]

Im just north of Baltimore. About 90 miles to the ocean as the crow flies but im about a mile from the Chesapeake Bay

 

[nereefpat]

Oh, must be an old person saying lol

I'm 34.

 

[Conrad Noto]

I'm in RPB, FL about 25 min drive to Palm Beach, Ocean. About 6-7 hr drive across to gulf coast on other side.

 

[User1]

Oh, must be an old person saying lol

Lol - that escalated quickly!

 

[zoaprince]

roughly 30 miles. I've been to the tide pools and seen some coral there. nothing very pretty, but then again its all white light at the surface.

 

[guts11]

Oh, must be an old person saying lol

Only 23 so must be more of a culture thing. I think I first read it in LOTR

 

[Davis Hill]

About 13 miles to Laguna Beach in California.

 

[jreece11]

Less than a quarter mile from the beach in South Florida, three houses away from the intercoastal.
Grew up in the AZ desert and didn’t see the ocean until my late teens...but once I put a mask on and looked underwater I was hooked for life. As the late and great Bob Fenner quoted: “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”

 

[AdamD76]

108 miles. I used to live a 2 minute walk to the water when I lived in Florida.