Posted by Joseph Montes de Oca on June 06, 2018 at 02:15:19
I think it's called red tide. Most of the underwater fossilized reef rock was covered in the algae. There were still some black-bellied plovers around and also a great-blue heron and little-blue heron, some ibises, gulls etc so the birds didn't seem to mind too much. There were less fish than usual although maybe they were just harder to see in the red-tinged water. There was a lot of dead seagrass washed up on the shore (smelled awful). Don't ask me why I went snorkeling in there.... 8-) Can anybody say how often this happens and how long it usually lasts? I haven't been to the fossilized reef in a while but it seemed pretty extensive there today. Thanks, Joe