Until I can get my hands on a second-hand bike, I'm your friendly neighbourhood walking Tor! I'm trying to buy a bike through Facebook Marketplace (further into its evil coils go I) - but they keep being too far away for me to walk to, and the buses so far have not been excellent at sticking to their schedules. Yesterday I waited for aggregate 1 hour in the rain for the Number 1. The plus is that the three drivers I've encountered so far have been outrageously friendly and nice. It's very confusing when you're used to London, where the buses are on time but the drivers are angry (new TFL strapline?)
On Saturday I decided to go see the Florida Museum of Natural History. It looks great - and there's a huge butterfly house next door. I walked about an hour, then ate a club sandwich in the next door cafe, then when I stuck my head into the museum the combination of fearsome air-conditioning and the stipulation to leave umbrellas in a communal unguarded bucket (where's the umbrella bucket guard??? Maybe a cash-in-hand job for yours truly?) made me turn and head back. I just bought this amazing umbrella! And I'm cold! So I will report on the museum when I get inside - which won't be long!
The walk there took me through some interesting areas - the campus here is ENORMOUS, and all the pictures below were taken on its sidelines. I was the lone walker, although I did see a man/woman fishing (only from the back, they looked a bit forbidding to approach). So here are some highlights from my walk!
As IF!!!
That sign warns of alligators and snakes, and says to stay 10 feet from the water's edge. So this is excellent bench-placement.
Nice of them to provide so many feeding spots for the local gators!
50 Shades of Green
You don't have to be bats to work here, but it helps!
New sublet for me??
50 Shades Greener
Sweet little fungus (?) growing up through the fence - I've seen quite a few examples of this swamp-like behaviour.
Creepy church-type building.
IN SUMMARY:
'Gator sightings: 0, but I'm clearly getting nearer (or should I say THEY are getting nearer?!)
Bat houses: 3
Umbrellas pinched: 0, thanks to my vigilance! (Nice try, creeps at the Natural History Museum!!)
So this all looks glorious, though the benches are frankly terrifying. Good grief are they thinning out the human population one non English reader at a time? Everything looks like a clammy version of Stranger Things though possibly that's solely because it's more verdant than London. High five for your brolly vigilantism! Rain madness comic please.
ReplyDeleteHahaha maybe that's their sinister plan!! It IS a bit clammier version of Stranger Things, partly because there seems to be a green filter over everything, the light here is really different. There are no colours BUT green - no flowers or anything I realised. It's a bit baleful feeling - hope I'll get used to it!! And rain comic in progress! xxxx
DeleteI forgot, thousands of these Xxxxxxxxxx
ReplyDeleteAnd to you!! xxxxxxxx
DeleteIt really is very swampy isn’t it. What time of year does it stop raining? xx
ReplyDeleteWeather being the personal thing it seems to be to everyone, every single person I've asked (and I've asked quite a few now) says something different. But according to online averages, August has 14 rainy days, and it gets less and less until starting again next July. So after September I'm hoping for brighter (though still humid) days! xx
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