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13 Jun 21, 12:15 AM |
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Red tide, would it put you off?
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We are supposed to be travelling in September and staying our first five nights in clearwater right by the beach, as part of a Fb group for the area I have seen many recent posts talking about red tide, and showing photos of dead fish at pier 60, apparently it’s very smelly! With all the other uncertainties about actually getting there this year, I’m now wondering if this is the final straw so to speak and whether to cancel. I don’t know how long these things last for, or how bad it can actually get, I believe it was bad in 2018. We can’t sit on a beach for too long without getting in the sea, so not being able to would be pretty pointless, although looking at the beach cam today there were plenty of people in the water
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13 Jun 21, 12:21 AM |
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Join Date: Apr 20
Location: Central Fl
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Yes it smells so bad.
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13 Jun 21, 12:25 AM |
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We were in Anna Maria Island in 2018 and it was pretty awful. No one was swimming and there were dead fish all along the beach. Depressing.
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13 Jun 21, 03:47 AM |
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slightly serious Dibber
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13 Jun 21, 01:38 AM |
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Join Date: Nov 10
Location: Durham
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The summer of 2018 was exceptional as toxic cyanobacteria regularly released by the Corps of Engineers, from Lake Okeechobee into the Caloosahatchee River, which feeds into the Gulf of Mexico between North Fort Myers and Punta Gorda, clashed with red tide and caused a terrible time for W/SW Fl. Fort Myers Beach closed down, it was a ghost town, nobody visited and some businesses that closed didn't re-open. The stench from rotting marine life was sickening. All manner of marine life died, including a 15 foot whale shark which washed up on Sanibel. We winter on Bokeelia and bar plodging on/off the boat, as the general water quality is questionable our personal choice is not to go in Florida's oceans.
The following years haven't seen such serious issues, red tide remains in the Gulf, but then it always has, and the clean water campaign is strong and whilst we don't go in the oceans thousands happily do so without incident. The red tide situation quickly eases as sea temps drop but nobody can predict red tide Sept movements this far out.
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13 Jun 21, 12:29 PM |
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I've travelled to Fort Myers many times and never been affected thankfully.
I've looked at the archived maps and there seems to be no pattern to it - I kind of assumed it was related to temperature, but looking at the maps, some bad blooms have been in the cooler winter months too, while summer levels are ok! We (might be) spending some time on AMI this year, but now I'm not so sure! |
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13 Jun 21, 02:08 AM |
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Join Date: Apr 20
Location: Central Fl
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The leak from Piney Point is being pinpointed right now for the high and somewhat early red tide issues .
“After the recent State of Emergency issued for Manatee County by Governor Ron DeSantis, experts are reeling over the possibility of an environmental disaster. Hazardous water threatening to be unleashed, not only across Tampa Bay, but other major waterways in our state. It’s a situation that Wittman is all too familiar with. “It can spur algae blooms, it can enhance or make red tide blooms worse and all of that- as we’ve seen before- has devastating effects on not only the ecology of our water, but also the local economies that are affected by water quality,” says Wittman. The water within the Piney Point Reservoir has high levels of nutrients- such as phosphorus, nitrogen and ammonia. The exact ingredients those algae blooms feed off o |
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13 Jun 21, 02:38 AM |
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We went in 2019 and I spent some time looking at the Mote Marine Laboratory's site for updates as well as getting loads of information from ChrisS. Thanks Chris!
This is the Mote environmental update page, which contains useful links to Red Tide. mote/news/environment-updates
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13 Jun 21, 07:56 AM |
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We were booked to visit Naples, and then AMI, in 2020. Thankfully, one of the reasons we weren't stung when we had to cancel, was that we had booked all our accommodation on a 'free cancellation' basis with Expedia. We typically paid a small extra price for this, but I was always conscious of red tide, and we would have changed our itinerary accordingly if it had been a problem; maybe staying longer in the keys, or visiting Miami and the east coast instead. We certainly wouldn't have visited if the red tide was bad...
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13 Jun 21, 08:55 AM |
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DO NOT GO! We went to AMI island in July 2018 and it was terrible. I could barely breathe and I do not suffer from asthma. Water was awful so no swimming. Just avoid
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