Seven Mile Bridge from Miami to the Florida Keys. Nice smaller islands along the way as well. It's all beautiful till the hurricane comes.......................
They are a string of smaller islands on the southern tip of Florida which somewhat look like 'keys'. Key Largo is the largest and most well known. They tremendously expensive, but are very laid back tropical communities. As I said, they are like paradise, until the hurricanes come. Last year, they took a serious hit. Fortunately, most people who live or have vacation homes there, have enough funds to rebuild. Lived in Florida all my life and have never been there.
thanks Bess. I know I cud've googled it but I wanted to hear about them from you ..a proud Floridian. Come to think of it I have heard of Key Largo.. was a movie if memory serves. Shaped like keys..Just googled them. Well now that explains it succinctly. . Yes can see why you call them paradise.
Hidalgo was in our service area when I worked for Catalina Ambulance in McAllen. Hidalgo is where the first Africanized (Killer) bees came across the border into the United States, so that's why they decided to commission a statue. When the "Killer" bees arrived in the US, we were getting called out whenever anyone was stung by a bee, because people had the idea that these killer bees were far more potent than the regular bees that had been there before. In reality, their sting was far less potent. The danger came in their aggressiveness and the likelihood of being stung by several bees. I was mowing my lawn in Los Fresnos one day when I looked up to see a huge swarm of bees in my orange tree. They had swarmed into the shape of a large bee's nest. I was in the fire department too, so we brought the truck out and killed them with soapy water. Using the mist setting on the hose, the bees would just peel away, layer by layer, falling to the ground. We used soap in our water tank because soapy water was more effective in fires, and we found that it did a great job with bee swarms, as well. We had to quit doing that, however, when we received a letter from the EPA. Since soap was not an approved insecticide, it could not be used. Rather than using something that had no adverse effects to anything other than the bees, a poison had to be used. That's the government. Anyhow, that's why Hidalgo has its killer bee statue.