Sargassum Seaweed

Dont think that sargassum is only a problem in the Caribbean or Gulf of Mexico. I am at a hotel in Miami beach right now and we have it here. So just imagine whats going on elesewhere.

September of 2017 and in fact only a week or so before Hurricane Irma dropped in on Florida's Atlantic Coast, here I am on the beach at Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park - formally known as John U Lloyd Beach State Park. It's a state park, so you might not expect as much of the commercial

It's high tide, I mean high time we got sharing some of our personal experiences with Sargassum seaweed around Mexico and the Caribbean, maybe even a bit of South Florida! The purpose of this forum category is to share photos of first-hand experiences with Sargassum during your own vacation - or a

Mid-November of 2018, @Holly and I took a short cruise to The Bahamas with Norwegian and explored some of the sights and resort properties of Nassau - including the stretch of Goodman's Bay which meets the resorts complex of Baha Mar. It's the largest resort complex in the Caribbean, so it's hard t

A classic call to port in The Bahamas, Junkanoo Beach isn't just lively - it's also convenient. Plenty of little bars and places to eat great local food, but a few of them also offer services for charging your phone or just a different option for relaxing by the water. As you can see, not a lot

I was here with @Holly again in April of 2018, another Sargassum-free beach on beautiful Saint Lucia. This time, the Grande St Lucian. Among the Sandals properties on the island, it's probably got not only the largest beach area but also the most beautiful views across the bay. Better than that,

It can seem as though southern island destinations such as Saint Lucia escape the worst of extremes. Not only do many of the region's hurricanes skip on by, when we were there in the first week of April in 2018, a particularly bad year elsewhere in the Caribbean for seaweed. It seemed as though th