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Originally Posted by jswinden
Sounds like you live in a high humidity and flat land with lots of alligators and pythons! Not to mention retirees who eat dinner at 4:00pm.  |
I live at the top of the highest hill in Key West proper (the old dump on the next island is in the city limits and is higher), but I'm only 18' above sea level making it rather flat.
One the other hand, the "4 o'clock dinner crowd" doesn't migrate this far south as a rule. They rarely get within 100 miles of here, preferring the mainland's vast number of theme restaurants to the small quirky one-offs found in the Keys.
The alligators (there are only a few), crocs, and pythons generally prefer the more rural Keys instead of the more urban Key West. The major invasive pest here are the iguanas. On the plus side, our range of "backyard" birds include ibis and several types of heron. Myriads of types of gulls, brown pelicans, magnificent frigate birds, white crowned pigeons, turkey vultures, cooper's hawks, and osprey are regularly seen from my porch and on my walk to work.