We have a big bloom off shore. The winds are blowing it in. Dead fish litter the beach and it's in the air. Your nose runs, your throat gets fuzzy and your eyes water.

Life at the beach sucks today.

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Yuck...so do you wait for the winds to blow it out?

 

Yep the winds need to switch to offshore but we have a front coming in from the West that's blowing it in. When we get a lot of wave action, it becomes airborne and can affect you quite a ways inland as well.

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Just sux to live in a warm climate!

The things you have to put up with!

 

Get rid of it before I come down in February, please.

 

The wind has shifted to the NNE and it's blowing offshore so relief is on the way. What's really cool though are all the vultures. Billions and billion of them or at least that's what it looks like along the beach.

High tide was around 4am and there's a line of dead fish down the beach. They won't be there long...MMMMMMM nothing better than fish kill vulture breakfast.

fltsfshr

 

Hope its not coming this way.

 

With a NNE wind, it's headed for Cozumel. You don't need to worry. As soon as the nutrient level drops, the red algae will die off until the next time it finds a big food source. In our instance, it was the heavy rains washing lots of stuff for algae to eat down our estuarial river systems from the everglades and lake Okeechobee. This patch is about 60 miles long and 20 miles wide.



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