I live in a town that is 819 meters above sea level and the sea is 115 kilometers away, so to see the sea I have to wait for some rare weekends when:
- I am free from work
- my daughter is not involved in swimming competitions at the pool
For this reason I will most likely see the sea only with the approach of summer but thanks to your post I could see it earlier :)
That is a fair distance :)
My daughter, now almost 18, swam a lot as a younger also. I found the contests got quite frequent early on and selfishly, they chopped into my weekend time with her. All good though :)