As everybody who knows, there is an oil spill just off the coast of the Gulf Coast and it has hurt everything related to the gulf coast. If I was to write everything about it, then the post would be several paragraphs long. I would just like to discuss a few things...
What is the beaches like right now??? That is the question I get from most of my friends in SC. Well I have not been to the beach since the oil has washed up on Alabama beaches but I have been meaning to. However I have had friends who have gone and I can just relay what they have said. Right now (as of last Saturday) there is no oil on the beach but you can smell the oil in the air. We are allowed to go into the water, even though there is a health advisory, and after you get out you smell like a car engine. If you dig deep enough into the sand you might find a thin layer of oil that was not able to be cleaned up. That is pretty much what the beaches are like here in Alabama. Of course it might be different if you go to FL, LA, or MS.
The second thing I would like to talk about is the relocation of the sea turtle eggs/nests that are on the gulf coast shores. In Charleston the sea turtles are an important part of the culture so this caught my interest. They are going (and have some already) to move the sea turtle eggs to the Atlantic Coast where the oil will not affect them. Sea turtles eggs are very fragile so they are moving them in styrofoam containers. The only problem they might run into is that according to science tests and observations, sea turtles tend to return to the place where they were born to lay more eggs. So they might return to the Gulf coast and to the oil. I read this on cnn.com so you might want to do a search on that site if you would like more info.
Well thats all I really wanted to talk about in regards to the gulf coast. If you have any questions then just let me know.
I have a uncle in Clearwater, Florida. He said on Facebook today that he saw no oil on the beach
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