This was such a refreshing post. Reading it made me feel as if I was near the sea. I loved being close to the river too. During my childhood, my family and I used to go to a hill station Besham in the northern area of Pakistan and River Indus flowed by it. We loved being at the riverside and had some memorable moments there. However, my brother, cousin and I were also once going to get drowned in it so a bad memory is also attached to it.