Come to Long Boat Key, they said. The beach is beautiful, they said.
Then the winds turned, and Red Tide came crashing toward our beach. Red Tide is a toxic algae bloom in the ocean that happens every year, but this one has been especially dangerous.
On our last couple of days of vacation, we noticed a weird smell in the air that made us cough, that was the algae toxin. Then the dead fish smell hits you from the beach. It was crazy- thousands of dead fish and eels on the beach and floating in the now brown water.
It was a disgusting, fascinating science lesson for us.
And the end of our beach days here.
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