The situation here in San Diego is a little different than a place like....say, Seattle.  We've got WAVES here...big ones sometimes.  Plenty of salty mist from those waves; plenty of strong onshore winds too.  I'm only 1 mile from the ocean.  Things like doorknobs and aluminum window frames and Vanagon electrical contacts have a bigger challenge than most places inland.  And....we don't get much freshwater rinsing (rain) to take that stuff out of the local atmosphere.

    On Tuesday, July 2, 2019, 8:34:44 PM PDT, David McNeely <davmcneely40@GMAIL.COM> wrote:  
 
 It is true that the salt does not evaporate into the air.  But weather
events result in sea water mist in the air at times.  The mist, which is
water droplets picked up from the sea surface by wind, not evaporation,
contains sea salts.  The smell that people associate with the sea is not
salt, but the organics in the mist, and organics from muds, sands, plants,
and sea weeds exposed at low tide.

On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 8:25 PM OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@comcast.net> wrote:

> On 30 Jun , 2019, at 6:36 PM, Richard Koerner wrote:
>
> > I live near the ocean (salty air) in San Diego
>
>                RK
>
>        That Air may Smell Salty but it Is Not Actually Salty ~ The Salt
> in Ocean Water Stays
>
> in the Ocean Water & does not Evaporate into "SeaAir" ~