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Notice my Red Stripe in the last picture for perspective. The bottle was sitting on about 2 feet of seaweed.
Holy crap!!! That is a crazy amount of seaweed! The smell must have been horrid! Sad to see all the garbage mixed up in it as well :(
The sea was returning the empties! Guess it was great for the shell collectors as long as you could handle the smell!
Lots of Conch shells for sale!
Holy crap!
How will they get rid of it all?
Wow... I believe they bury it maybe burn it. still wow ...
Yuck !!!
No worries mon! It has been cleaned up. The government came in with backhoes and trucks and carted it all off - the places that received less were able to simply bury it as it came in....
Yes, we saw backhoes in action at the Treehouse, Margaritaville, and Rondel VIllage. Unfortunately, on those days I left my camera in the room. It was constantly getting coated with salt spray from the winds coming in off the sea and I was weary of trying to keep the lens clean. Everyting was coated - sunglasses, hair, clothes, contact lenses, cameras, windows, etc. It even coated and killed some of the vegetation, which will come back.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob
Speechless!!!
We were delayed flying on Wednesday due to Hurricane Sandy and flew out Friday, October 26th and I can tell you, we have been to Negril 8 times and never saw the waves crashing that hard so your pictures do not surprise me at all. Hubby was a bit nervous about flying out due to the wind and waves, but the flight was smooth and on time.
True, dat!Quote:
Originally Posted by Aud-A-Sea
First time?Quote:
Originally Posted by Luvsdaislands
I bought some of those conch shells!!
We were there in April and there was a lot of seaweed for a few days but that is just riduculous!
It did smell bad but yes it is cleaned up now and the beach is back to being sea-weed free.
Yeah, the odor was a real stomach turner at times.Quote:
Originally Posted by kaycee
Especially when it rained! I was there from last week until this monday...I hated the smell!Quote:
Originally Posted by Weathermon & Mi Lady
Well, it is good that the ocean regurgitated it out of its system .... and that it was removed. Good news for the reefs!! It'll give some of the coral larvae a fresh spot on the reefs for attachment.
They should use all that for a big compost pile. Use it for gardens up in the hills. Lots of places nothing but rockstone. Grow veggies and stuff. :D
In the "old days" seaweed was tossed up against a houses foundation before winter for insulation and the next spring it was turned into the fields to fertilize. Just natural.
WOW, poor baby conchs, dead. Thats a shame. I know exactly where this is, feel for my gardener friends there
Dash we do that here, with lobster shells, to fertilize a field. And seaweed on our bulbs to protect against snow during the winter.
Were those conchs, baby conch shells empty? Not alive?
Treehouse paid for a private backhoe, cleaned up in 2 days. We dug and dug ( me too) then buried it
LadyJane, If you need help emptying those lobsters, just call!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lady Jane
Ok Dash, you will have to come to PEIQuote:
Originally Posted by dash
Some of the conch had been alive when the sea brought them to the beach.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lady Jane