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This is KN4LDF. This is Dee. Man, when I came to Florida about 20 years ago from New York, and one thing I used to love going to was, before we went up this bridge, we went through the side. And on the side, there was a bunch of rows of trees along the bay. So the water will come up under the trees. I don't know if I can give you a picture of this. But what you can do is, what we did is, in between the trees there was an opening. Usually the opening was good enough to drive your truck in between. And there would be a little water, little oasis, and you would put your chairs up and you have your little private oasis with your car there, and you could enjoy the day. But things have changed since 20 years. We have a bacteria problem, algae, and that's because the pollution entwines with our bay at certain points of the day or whatever. You have to keep an eye out to how high and low it is. So it eats your, if you've got your foot in, you know, in the water, you're swimming in, getting skin-eating bacteria, you know, there's a chance. So with that, I stopped going to that area, but it was very beautiful, very beautiful. There's probably places all over the United States where there's just such beauty in it. But, you know, you gotta be careful. Like, I don't go to the beach anymore. We had, oh, let me drop for a second. One time I read a couple years back in St. Petersburg, the college kids came in and they buried their friend in the sand out of fun, you know. But when he went back, apparently a dog must have pooped in the area they buried him in, and the dog had some kind of worm or something. So worm went into the bottom of this kid's foot and started crawling all over his body, and then he got a couple of them in his body, and they had to somehow kill the parasite. So, you know, when I heard that news, you could probably look it up at YouTube, it was a little gross to me, so now I don't even walk on the sand. So, anyway, but I think there's a lot of beauty still out there. There's places in Florida that is so, we have a lot of preserves and places you can go to camping, but, you know, you have to be a little careful because climate and disease can be a problem, so you have to be careful. Anyway, back to the net.