temps never get over 97 in the summer, never below 68 in the winter. Generally about a ten degree difference day/night. Dry season Dec- May, but usually some rain. We've had a lot of rain this year. I sleep with just a fan, no airconditioning. Quite nice. humidity is around 60%
Soil is extremely alkaline, tests dark blue. Mountains to 1,000 feet high, some flat land, too.. Hmm, few crops, mostly food is imported. Every bug and disease is here. If you plant any vegetable, you'd really watch and be ready to contain problems. I plan a screened house for my veggie garden eventually. How to make it hurricane proof is the trick! Didn't have a storm this year or last, hooray! Air is salty, worse in some places than other.
A few beef cattle on the Island, they "invented" the Senapol breed here. They are gorgeous! See:
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Nice place to live, but expensive and lots of hassles getting things done. Hamburger is running $5 a lb, zucchini $1 each. Land starts at 35-50k a lot. Rents start about 1k and go to 2k and more. electricity is 4x the states.
I've been here mostly, since 1988. In my yard, I'm growing papayas, some kind of vine spinach, soursop trees, mango trees, coconut trees. I need to grow more veggies. Oh, I have a three year old broccoli plant, I eat the leaves. And things like basil and lima beans are perinnials.
Some folks come and love it here, some hate it.
