I admire a man out on the street in his topee keeping up with the maintenance. This climate has a pretty deleterious effect on wood and paint and pretty much anything left outdoors.
The sun burns stuff up, the salt air rusts anything and everything, especially during summer's humid months, and mold grows anywhere and everywhere. Some people say that not using air conditioning allows mold to grow inside a house during the summer an d that may be true. Personally I have found, living on a boat without air conditioning, that the trick is not to crowd your stuff. Books or clothes packed tight allow humidity to develop and there's nothing quite so delicious as musty smelling clothes or books with little black spores on the pages.
The good part about the sub tropical climate is that the flora is pretty interesting even to a dunderhead like me who can barely recognize a pink hibiscus. I saw this couple sitting on a bench just off Duval, and I loved how they each had a dog, a mirror image almost of each other.
For me the heat and humidity right now is excellent and entirely tolerable. For visitors it frequently gets to be too much. heat exhaustion can be a real problem in Key West for people not used to it. The slow speed limits can be difficult for people visiting from the land of Freeways Up North. Apparently my colleagues in the Traffic Division have been busy.
The speed limit, the sign also noted, is 30 miles per hour on Eaton Street. That should be enough for anyone streaming to Duval Street to buy a beer and a filthy t-shirt. Or to listen to some music if they have higher aspirations, now that the Songwriter's Festival is underway.
The sun burns stuff up, the salt air rusts anything and everything, especially during summer's humid months, and mold grows anywhere and everywhere. Some people say that not using air conditioning allows mold to grow inside a house during the summer an d that may be true. Personally I have found, living on a boat without air conditioning, that the trick is not to crowd your stuff. Books or clothes packed tight allow humidity to develop and there's nothing quite so delicious as musty smelling clothes or books with little black spores on the pages.The good part about the sub tropical climate is that the flora is pretty interesting even to a dunderhead like me who can barely recognize a pink hibiscus. I saw this couple sitting on a bench just off Duval, and I loved how they each had a dog, a mirror image almost of each other.For me the heat and humidity right now is excellent and entirely tolerable. For visitors it frequently gets to be too much. heat exhaustion can be a real problem in Key West for people not used to it. The slow speed limits can be difficult for people visiting from the land of Freeways Up North. Apparently my colleagues in the Traffic Division have been busy.
The speed limit, the sign also noted, is 30 miles per hour on Eaton Street. That should be enough for anyone streaming to Duval Street to buy a beer and a filthy t-shirt. Or to listen to some music if they have higher aspirations, now that the Songwriter's Festival is underway.
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