AprilsZoo
Why worry?
- Joined
- Feb 17, 2001
We are hopefully going to get a chance to go to Discovery Cove during our upcoming trip, which is something I've wanted to do since they opened. But now that it's time to plan it, I'm getting nervous.
I'm not what anyone would call a strong swimmer. When I was young, my mom wouldn't let me go around water (pools, lakes, etc) without a life vest on, because I couldn't swim (because she couldn't swim to come in after me if I needed help).... Of course, since I wasn't allowed in the water without it, I couldn't learn to swim. Kinda a pickle, huh?
Anyway, when I was about 12, i would go to friends' homes who had pools and I taught myself to swim. I can dog-paddle and do a regular stroke, sorta. It feels like I'm doing the same thing I see other people do, at least in my mind, lol.(DH
says its pretty sad to look at, and that its a wonder i move forward at all, lol)
As a result i do not have a lot of confidence when in deep water. I'll swim through the deep end of a pool, but i usually just get to the edge to stop and then turn around and swim back. DH says I tread water just fine, but I never feel really good about it. Also, I never learned to swim underwater... I just can't seem to get down under the surface, like to get something off the bottom of the pool.
Anyway, do you have to be a super-strong swimmer to do the dolphin interaction? Does the dolphin take you out into the water? If so, do you have to do that part, or can you just do the stuff in the shallows?
I wish I could've convinced my mom to let me take swimming lessons when I was a kid .... I've called all over and no one does swimming lessons for adults...
I'm not what anyone would call a strong swimmer. When I was young, my mom wouldn't let me go around water (pools, lakes, etc) without a life vest on, because I couldn't swim (because she couldn't swim to come in after me if I needed help).... Of course, since I wasn't allowed in the water without it, I couldn't learn to swim. Kinda a pickle, huh?
Anyway, when I was about 12, i would go to friends' homes who had pools and I taught myself to swim. I can dog-paddle and do a regular stroke, sorta. It feels like I'm doing the same thing I see other people do, at least in my mind, lol.(DH
says its pretty sad to look at, and that its a wonder i move forward at all, lol)
As a result i do not have a lot of confidence when in deep water. I'll swim through the deep end of a pool, but i usually just get to the edge to stop and then turn around and swim back. DH says I tread water just fine, but I never feel really good about it. Also, I never learned to swim underwater... I just can't seem to get down under the surface, like to get something off the bottom of the pool.
Anyway, do you have to be a super-strong swimmer to do the dolphin interaction? Does the dolphin take you out into the water? If so, do you have to do that part, or can you just do the stuff in the shallows?
I wish I could've convinced my mom to let me take swimming lessons when I was a kid .... I've called all over and no one does swimming lessons for adults...