Dear Reader:

I was about eight or nine when I first saw this horror show ( probably first one I snuck into with Ben without mother knowing) I paid the price for the parent deception… I had nightmares for a week.

For those of you lucky enough to have missed it… some kind of strange carnivorous amoeboidal alien comes back down to earth in a meteorite in a small town in Pennsylvania. And it is hungry… the whole movie was watching all forms of humanity get eaten… a little known blockbuster movie!

Thirty years later it was revised with more ingenious ways to watch humans get digested… I never saw the eighties version because I could still remember how terrifying the first one was…

Today scientists are predicting we have another form of a ” blog” forming that has the growing potential of destroying sea life and the ocean’s food production. It is called SARGASSUM seaweed.

John, Mandy, and family got to experience the Sargassum Seaweed upclose and personal-too personal-it smells like a combination of rotting eggs and manure and is ugly… destroying the beauty of the water.

Last year the Turners went to Jamaica and the ocean was crystal clear but this summer… the ” blob” is attacking the Florida coasts and the Caribbean islands. June and July are the worst months.

Why has this seaweed gotten so worst and who is to blame? Man is to blame-why? We are using more fertilizer, burning biomass, cutting down forests and increasing the amount of waste water from cities… all of which sends ammonium, nitrate, and phosphate down major river systems-dumping into the seas.

Those elevated nutrients then shoot out over the surface of the oceans… acting as fertilizer feeding the Sargassum brown patches.

This serious dilemma was first sighted in 2011 – masses growing so big … they were captured on satellite images. ( more than double the width of the United States. )

But the ramifications go on and on… sea turtles can’t get through it to build their nests on beaches, then baby turtles can’t get through it to the ocean or get entangled once in the water.

A little help for the sea turtles… community clearing the path to the ocean… for baby turtles…

One scientist said he wished the Sargassum Seaweed was the movie ” Blog” … the real life blog is potentially deadlier… could eventually kill off sea animals to the point of affecting global starvation. Man did this… now it is time to own up and start fixing it.

So until tomorrow…

Today is my favorite day/ Winnie the Pooh