Haha, same as you, I didn't grow up with clean mountain rivers, instead it was agricultural area with no forests and cornfields as far as the eye can see, just like ricefields in Asia, except much more chemicals. I swam in lakes and ponds as a kid, but they were always dirty and full of poisonous snakes, not possible to relax and swim at the same time 🤣.
I do remember the first time we drove to Kentucky as a kid, and this was the first time I small mountains and clear streams. From that day I always wanted to live away from farms and in more natural areas. How are the beaches there? From what I've seen there is hardly any shade like in SE Asia, where we often have palms and coconut trees. It doesn't seem the beach life is a part of the culture either like it is in the Philippines.
Oh that's cool, but that just sad to hear about all those chemicals. That's really tough of you to swim there, as soon as we would see snakes with my family we would run hahahaha
That's really nice, I hope that you are enjoying the place where you are living right now. There are barely any trees here on the beach, the shade that we get is primarily man-made haha. However, there are a lot of people who also go to the beach here. But some people also refrain from going here during summer because the water is too hot to swim in and the sun will burn you to crisp
That picture is very typical of what I've seen from that part of the world. With so much wealth you think they'd put some major landscaping efforts in. The beaches in the USA are mostly very similar, all trees and palms cut down to make easier access I guess. I can feel the heat when I look at that picture.
I think the other beaches have better landscaping. I haven't explored as much though because we work 6 times a week and I get off at around 7:30 pm haha.
It's still hot now but a bit cooler than the past month. I really miss the rain though.
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