Buoys are those metal things that float around in the ocean that aren't boats. I really don't know much about the things other than the fact that they bob up and down in the water just far enough away from the shore so that we don't accidentally knock into them when we're swimming around or surfing in the ocean. They pretty much indicate the all too necessary "don't swim beyond here or you'll be eaten by a shark or carried away with the current" boundary. I think. I don't go swimming in the ocean much, but I imagine that's what those things are there for.
I also know that the word buoy is ridiculously annoying to type. Try it. Buoy. No matter how many times I try I can't type that word without fucking up. Buioy. See? That sneaky little "i" comes in outta nowhere.
But I digress. Buoys are always in the ocean. If you were awake for most of elementary school you'd know that about seventy percent of the earth is covered by ocean. Technically there is only one ocean because all of those big bodies of salt water on the earth are interconnected, but because mankind has some sort of issue with sharing we've divided the world ocean up into five different mini-oceans. These oceans are: the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, and the easily forgettable Southern Ocean (it borders Antarctica, so who cares).
The Indian Ocean is bordered by Africa, Australia, and southern Asia. I guess it's called the Indian Ocean because India's kind of a big country that sticks out in the middle of this ocean like a sore thumb. Bangladesh is right next to India, and a little bit of it lies on the Indian Ocean. I think. The map on Wikipedia is mad tiny. Oh wait, I can zoom in....yep, definitely. It's got some ocean. Cool.
Hammocks to Henry VIII
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