“Massive seaweed blob invades Florida beaches!” “Huge, smelly snake of seaweed headed toward the Caribbean!” Though the headlines sound like something out of a 1950s horror movie, sargassum is reaching record levels this year, with some beaches already seeing large amounts of the brown seaweed washing ashore. Does sargassum have […]
Sargassum
What Is Sargassum? Everything Travelers Need to Know
A large “seaweed blob” that is section of the Excellent Sargassum Belt is building headlines and could have seashore goers wondering if their impending sand-loaded getaways alongside the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean and Florida might be plagued with a layer of rotting, stinking algae. At […]