Sunday, September 9, 2018

Red Tide

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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