Rosebolt said:Icelaaaaaaaand!!
Rosebolt said:Icelaaaaaaaand!!
mslonely said:At most 10 years into the future would be nice
Mrs Falcon said:Tropical means snakes and spiders, creepy crawlies humidity and great big thunderstorms. Stuck on an island in a tropical storm will get your pants blown away. I like thunderstorms, but being safe inside the house with the windows closed.
Aisha said:Mrs Falcon said:Tropical means snakes and spiders, creepy crawlies humidity and great big thunderstorms. Stuck on an island in a tropical storm will get your pants blown away. I like thunderstorms, but being safe inside the house with the windows closed.
As a tropical islander I'm going to try not to get too defensive. Haha but you're quite right about humidity. Most of the year I live in a desert climate. Which, as you can probably guess is rather dry. So when I go home, the contrast when I step off the plane is very palpable. And yes, there are bugs. Not Australia-type bugs, just regular non-murderous buggy bugs. But I'm afraid I'm going to have to disabuse you of your notion concerning everything else. We do have a monsoon season but it's generally clear skies. It's the tropics. The weather is kind of known for being sunny. Very sunny. Not desert-sunny. Usually just 25C or so. That's probably far too hot for some, but it's fine for us. And these days we have these things called fans and this other miracle they call air conditioning. Having a monsoon season doesn't mean 'tropical storms that blow your pants off.' It doesn't get that bad. And fortunately we aren't prone to hurricanes or tornados or anything of the sort.As for snakes, you're right. But only one species of non-venomous grass snake is native to our country. The biggest native reptile is a lizard that is about a little longer than a handspan. We have no killing-y things on land and none really in the sea either, since even our sharks are pretty laidback. We don't have great whites or makos or things of that nature. The last shark attack wasn't in living memory I believe.
Island life at home is quite idyllic and can be very much like people imagine it to be. Everywhere but the capital island of course. Capitals anywhere are usually congested and overflowing with people. It's more beautiful than the pictures make it out to be, and the coral reefs that are our foundation make it a divers heaven. My element is the water and I would not choose to be from anywhere else. I've lived more than half my life abroad, but every time I come home I appreciate being from where I am a little more. Especially since within a century or so, tiny low lying archipelagos like ours might be wiped off the map because of global warming and with the current rate of sea level rise being what it is. It's quite sad to think my children's children may become climate refugees or environmental migrants and will only have a memory of a home country, if that.
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