Grr

[elisi]

OK, so the internet is still playing up. A lot. Gmail isn't working at all, and LJ is extremely spotty.

So I shall cross my fingers and toes and hope that this posts. And try to reply to people - but if I don't, then this is why.

Oh and IF it does, is there anyone out there who might be able to tell me what Florida is like? As a tourist, I mean. (For fic purposes. No need for indepth descriptions, but what are the things that stand out? Weather/food/places of interest/local customs/etc.)

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[avidrosette.livejournal.com]

A lot of people travel there in the winter, coming from colder areas. When you get off the plane, the air is soft and mild and your whole body uncurls. In the Palm Beach area, near the Atlantic coast, it's in the 70s and 80s (F) during the day, lovely and mild, with gentle breezes, sunny every day. The ocean beaches are sugar white and sparsely attended. The folks that are there tend to be low key and bohemian-ish. The water is turquoise blue and warm; you can hardly believe it's the same ocean as the New England coast. You sometimes have to follow a path through a mangrove forest to get to the beach. Some beaches have these cool blow-holes, mini-cliffs with spouts where the water spumes up when the tide comes close enough. Others have lovely walking trails through the mangroves, along the cliffs, or under the shade of arbor tunnels. If you're lucky enough to stay near the beach, you might not put your shoes on for days at a time.

Temperatures get cool at night and there are sometimes fierce rain storms.

Other points of interest, if you can drag yourself away from the above:

- quiet inlets protected from the ocean with little strips of land. These are often entirely unmarked - you have to get someone to tell you where they are. You descend to them down endless stairways. The manatees like to swim there. White beaches, calm aqua water - a little kid's paradise.

- turtle sanctuaries - they save injured and stranded sea turtles; nurse them back to health and set them free again. The public can visit.

- walking trails through the native Florida scrub - strange and wild

- Cape Canaveral, where the US space program was centered. Rather amazing to visit both for the rocket stuff and the incredible natural beauty. It's on its own separate piece of land sticking out into the Atlantic. Bald eagles make huge nests there.

Good luck with your fic!