Morgan Hunt
January 29, 2008
Current Events
How a person or event in my history contributed to the person I am today.
One thing, as a person that I enjoy is the ocean. My family has contributed to my love for the ocean, for as a young child I was always around the water. When I was about three my family lived right on a pond which gave me plenty of time to spend on the water, swimming and sailing. So much of my family enjoy being on the water as well, and it was certainly something we spent most of our summer doing. When blueberries were ripe, my grandma and I would go out on the pond on her canoe and get blueberries to make pancakes with. I used to always look forward to going to her house just to hang out by the dock and swim in the pond. My grandpa and uncle introduced me into sailing as well. Although I never feel confident to go out alone, I always enjoy sailing on their pond. I also enjoyed hanging out at the beach and spending time on my grandparent’s sea ray. A lot of my family even still spends most of their time on the water; my uncle has his own line of catamaran boats. However, when I was five years old my mom & I moved off of the pond that my grandparents also lived on onto Nantucket.
With it being an island and all I was largely exposed to the Ocean. I loved it. It took up a good majority of my time and my mother and I frequently went there. We had favorites, such as steps beach and Madaket. There were beaches that we had for certain things, such as just watching the waves, watching the sunset, and swimming. As for the waves we would always go to Sconset, even in the winter because the waves were just so astounding. For sunsets we would always try to make a trip to Madaket, it was the best view and always worth it. As for just walking around we would try to go to Brant point, at the tip of the harbor and holding a small light house. I grew to love the ocean and always try to spend my free time there. I actually find it inspiring. I owe it all to my mom, and grandparents and uncle, for they introduced me to it and it made me appreciate it for what it really was. I consider the ocean to be a big part of my life, and I think I would hate to live somewhere landlocked because I would miss it too much.
