Seattle summer hits different by the water

get out into it? So like you, Katie, I didn't grow up here.

I grew up in Chicago.

And we have a lakefront.

There's Lake Michigan, which is kind of like the ideal of a beach, water that's warm enough to get in, sand.

But for me, a huge game-changing memory was soon after I moved here.

I was on the Oregon coast.

And we were standing on the beach.

And I saw bull kelp for the first time.

Oh, yeah.

So, you know, bull kelp is that big long kelp with, like, a bulb at the top and then long serpent-like tendrils off the top of it.

And, I mean, you know, summer spent at Lake Michigan, fine.

There is no bull kelp there.

I had never seen anything like it.

And so...

In that moment, something shifted for me in terms of my thinking of what water was, because Lake Michigan and the Pacific Ocean kind of look the same from the beach.

You can't see the end of it.

But I don't mean to be like, we're not in Kansas anymore.

But it was really a moment where I was like, there is some stuff in this water that I do not know about.

And it was really exciting.

Well, and I would say some of the stuff in that water is just like life because I'm still shocked that you're describing Lake Michigan as a place to go swimming.

I also lived in Chicago for a short time and maybe I wasn't there at the right time of year, but I would not have gotten into that water.

And I like cold water.

I also think that when it gets as It's disgusting in the summer in Chicago sometimes.

It's so incredibly hot.

I think you just take the water you can get, you know? Yes, 100%.