I think you could fairly say today has been a bad day for our beaches. It's day 64 since the Deepwater Horizon accident. Since then oil's been here in spurts and tarballs here and there & just looming off the coast for what seems a long long time. Meanwhile we've seen it's horrible stain elsewhere and watched as it continues to stream into the Gulf despite many efforts to stem the flow.
We've gone to the beach to enjoy it as we love it. We've seen booms deployed. We've seen the hazmat teams at the ready and picking up what little remnant of ick that have thus far tainted our beaches. We've heard the anecdotal tales of local fisherman and we've heard the whisperings of the odd changes in coastal marine life behavior. We've prayed and we've hoped. And still we've all known that if you play the tape through to the end, with the oil still flowing and looming and impacting our seas and the wetlands in Louisiana and all along the coast, it would only be a matter of time before we began to see the larger impacts with our own eyes. And today was that day. Today it's here, here. In a horribly ugly awful blanket, kind of "here". In a health advisory issued kind of "here". And in a dolphin found nearby attempting to beach itself kind of "here". :(
Please join me in continued thoughts and prayers for our beautiful land and sea.
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