You can smell them before seeing them deposited on the beaches of the Guadeloupe coast. They are present and they represent a kind of dissuasive tourist trap for those who seek the landscapes of the old postal beaches. They represent the modern tourist "threat" of Sargassum.
You can see them coming from the sea by observing gradually overgrown coastal areas and when fully settled they prevent an idealistic swimming practice in the clear ocean water. But many don't know that there is a Sargasso Sea (located loosely in the center of the Atlantic Ocean) that has been around for centuries, if not millennia. And no, its characteristic brown algae is in no way the result of a polluting activity but rather a very natural phenomenon. In fact, the Sargasso Sea has been and still is seriously polluted by plastic waste (a direct result of irresponsible human activities) of all kinds now present in the water.
True, vacationers do not like the sight, the smell, the general discomfort caused by the additional presence of Sargassum. The same disgust applies to those who use motor boats because of the obvious inconvenience that brown algae can cause to propellers or turbines for example. Episodic phenomena surely obsess the greatest number more than the few who prefer to ignore it, but it is part of our geo-climatic reality that it would be almost impossible to prevent and control in the near future and is part of the life of our planet.
When the sargassum comes, isn't it time to take a break from our hectic lifestyle? The question remains there...
You can see them coming from the sea by observing gradually overgrown coastal areas and when fully settled they prevent an idealistic swimming practice in the clear ocean water. But many don't know that there is a Sargasso Sea (located loosely in the center of the Atlantic Ocean) that has been around for centuries, if not millennia. And no, its characteristic brown algae is in no way the result of a polluting activity but rather a very natural phenomenon. In fact, the Sargasso Sea has been and still is seriously polluted by plastic waste (a direct result of irresponsible human activities) of all kinds now present in the water.
True, vacationers do not like the sight, the smell, the general discomfort caused by the additional presence of Sargassum. The same disgust applies to those who use motor boats because of the obvious inconvenience that brown algae can cause to propellers or turbines for example. Episodic phenomena surely obsess the greatest number more than the few who prefer to ignore it, but it is part of our geo-climatic reality that it would be almost impossible to prevent and control in the near future and is part of the life of our planet.
When the sargassum comes, isn't it time to take a break from our hectic lifestyle? The question remains there...
Photos Daniel M : Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark III / M.Zuiko 12-42mm II R
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