One dont have to live at the Prairie to miss seagulls or fresh sea-air.. I do that in Oslo. My hometown Haugesund looks like this:

[www.haugalandet.net]

This is what the ocean looks like just outside the harbour to the north. The pretty rough part of the coastline called "Slettå". If you turn straight west from here, its New Foundland next. The vessel is a small roro-coaster called STORDØY.

[www.haugalandet.net]

This is the same place during a north-west gale around last christmas. Slettå gets too rough for northbound coaster KONGSVIK (germanbuilt as some may see) which had a hard time advancing. She turns around near Kvalen lighthouse and go back to the safety of Haugesund harbour.

[www.haugalandet.net]

Yes I miss my hometown, the seagulls (especially in the the species that travels all the way from South Africa on a gale from the south each spring), the fresh air, the sound a harbour full of lightgenerators each fall when the purseseiner fleet has to wait for better weather, sound from the shipyard, etc. Growing up by the sea wondering whats behind the horizon is a good thing.