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You make 75K posts.

Any other brain teasers?

Now see, that's the perfect way to respond to net smartassery. Very well done!

That's quality entertainment.

That was one titillating tale, you had me on edge all the way...

Yea, no joke. The west coast, with all the rocks and seals is where folks should go. This place is oppressively hot, humid, infested with sand spurs, and home to LOTS of sharks. The water is too green to see em coming too.

More Florida Wonders..

Thas a big fuggin' iguana!

You don't want to capsize your kayak in Floriduh.......

I had to look up Ozello Keys. That's one of the cool things about Florida. For the massive population of the state, there are hidden treasures everywhere!

Everytime I am down in Florida , I wonder how the early explorers did it with no mosquito repellents, wearing heavy armor, dealing with skirmishes day in day out along with stifling heat and humidity and the horror of no AC.

Gobs of public land here.

Including the ocean.

I told my wife that if I rode a horse into Florida I'd have stopped around Jacksonville with a very adamant "fugk this."

Reading about Flagler and what he did to pave south Florida is pretty fascinating. And depressing.

That was quite an engineering feat by Flagler. It should have gained more notoriety then it did.

There are many different "Florida's" these days. My wife was born and raised in Orlando. Central Florida away from the coast can still be quite nice, but Disney has created a monster around itself that locals hate. Lake Co.and surroundings is still not over grown and close enough to Orlando to enough all the city things.

Panhandle is as redneck as South Georgia or Alabama, maybe even more so. The condo parade that the St. Joe Company has built over the past 25 years has swallowed up the entire panhandle coast with development. A little chilly in the winter for short shirt weather year around.

Tampa/St. Pete has always been a little strange to me. Tampa is a working port, and can be less than glitzy. St. Pete has been God's waiting room for a long time. Sarasota is mini Great Britain in the winter. Ft. Meyers/Naples is the Snowbird resting site in the winter. Never seen anything so seasonal as Naples/Marco Island. Dead in the summer and butt to butt crowded in the winter.

Atlantic coast — gets to be an extension of NY. NJ, and Ontario from St. Augustine all the way to Vero Beach.

Miami and Dade/Broward counties. Welcome to the capital of Latin America! My cousin moved to Coral Gables to work about 1980, and every time she went to the grocery store and English was the second language, she moved up the coast. Ft. Lauderdale. Deerfield, Port St. Lucie and so on. If she lives long enough she'll be in Georgia.

Keys - Always been fully of weirdos and flakes along with hard core conchs. Key West is circus of gays and cruise ships and tourists.

Weather.

Florida south of Gainesville is as good as it gets Nov-April. 70-80ºf, low humidity, low bugs, not too rainy. May - Sept it's hot and humid. Bugs galore. However, it's really not much different from where I live in June - August, with the exception of afternoon thunderstorms, which can be welcome.

Speaking of those, you can witness some spectacular and nasty lighting almost every day this time of year. Tampa area and Ft. Meyers is unreal. Panhandle is no different. As the land mass heats up during the day, convection pulls the moist air in from the Gulf and about 4 pm it comes down in buckets. Pensacola has a unique climate in that respect with P'cola Beach being an island, just inland is Gulf Breeze of the peninsula, then P'cola across the bay. 30 miles north is Cantonment, AL and Century. FL. I've seen so many days there where the sun is out on P'cola Beach, clouds and sprinkles in Gulf Breeze, Pensacola proper is getting rain, and Century/Cantonment is getting horrendous lightning and traffic stopping deluge that lasts about 20-30 minutes. Then everything clears up and is sunny again.

A lot of different fishes,

Some bigger than others...

A lot of different places to camp..

I suppose the Florida thing is much like anything else, it's just based on ones point of view...

Not really, Most of Florida's "attributes" have been adroitly covered. The place sucks...