a lake or the ocean..., where would be the best place for a person to make waves? Options

[flowerfairy]

so next year i will be moving to san francisco. it will be such a difference from calistoga, where i'm living right now. calistoga is a F**KING small town, calistoga is like a lake where the water is calm around you and you can make your own waves and they effect things and you can swim the whole curcumference of the lake and you're safe, locked within the land around you. but san francisco is like an ocean where there are these massive waves and it's a task sometimes staying afloat and not drowing, and there's all these dangers like sleeper wave and rip tides. but the thing about lakes is that they are surrounded on all sides by land so you are so limited as to where you can go and you are limited as to what effects you. but the ocean surrounds every piece of land on the planet so you can go wherever you like and things that float by you come from all over the world. so... where would be the best place for a person to center himself, a lake where they have the best vantage point to effect the things around them, or the ocean where they have the best vantage point to be effected by the things around them?

[Dan]

peace is pretty valuable to adults, but as an 'almost adult' I can understand the urge to get the hell out of sleepyville