| Since the beginning of time humans have been | | | | diseases from far off places. |
| attracted to water for many reasons. The most | | | | One of the most fun things about our attraction to |
| obvious attraction to fresh water is the fact that we | | | | water is what we do in it. Boating is also a pleasure |
| must ingest it to be able to survive. We can not | | | | activity that many people indulge their selves in. |
| normally go more than several days without it before | | | | Anything from a small dingy to a luxurious yacht will |
| we become so dehydrated that we can not function | | | | be used by people to enjoy cruising up and down |
| well or at all. The other reasons we are attracted to | | | | water. Swimming for fun and sport is done all around |
| it are for useful purposes and recreation. | | | | the world. |
| The useful purposes have been going on ever since | | | | What is amazing is the amount of money that some |
| someone whoever they were, learned to swim. It | | | | vacationers will spend just to be near their body of |
| made it possible to get from one side of a small | | | | water of choice. Sometimes they will travel |
| enough body of water to the other side. Whatever | | | | thousands of miles just to see and be able to walk |
| the reason they needed to get to the other side we | | | | along the beautiful beaches of Hawaii or the islands in |
| may never know. It could have been because there | | | | the Caribbean. Sun worshipers everywhere love |
| was a great fruit growing on the other side or an | | | | nothing better than a gorgeous beach filled with |
| animal to be killed that was not on the side they | | | | people from everywhere. |
| were on. | | | | The number one choice of water recreation for |
| Then someone built the first boat. They might have | | | | Americans is swimming pools. Some people just can |
| accidentally discovered that some wood would float | | | | not imagine having a home that does not include a |
| while others did not. That was a really great | | | | swimming pool on their property. It makes it so easy |
| discovery and we have been building bigger and | | | | to have our own pool in our own backyard to enjoy |
| better boats ever since. Boats have long been used | | | | anytime the weather allows us to. Even though some |
| to transport trade goods and other necessities from | | | | pool varieties can be expensive to have put in and |
| one place along a waterway to another. From | | | | the upkeep is not cheap either, it is worth the |
| country to country boats went eventually went, | | | | sacrifice for many. |
| sometimes bringing necessities and sometimes even | | | | |