Saturday, July 25, 2009

Today is David & my anniversary - we've been together for 37 years! Wow - almost 2/3's of our lives. Sadly, he was feeling ill most of the day, so it was a very quiet day. We do have plans to take a quick trip to Leavenworth and spend the night, so hope to fit that in soon. Love!
More photos of the algae bloom. With the tide in, it is much more evident.
When the boats go through it, they throw up a red wake, red splashes.
Close up, the water is filled with floating blobs of plankton/algae, and the reddest algae floats on the surface. The blobs are suspended in the upper several inches of sea. There are indeed toxic versions of 'red tide', but they say this isn't toxic, and is a natural phenomenon of warm weather and us.

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