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| Doing our civic duty fish clean-up |
However, we still have some red tide with us, but not as bad as before and seemingly diminishing day by day.
There are people swimming in the sea and the stone crab pots are out ready for Monday's (15th) season opening (Fun Fact: FL catches 99% of US stone crabs).
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| 'Rows' of seaweed at various tide lines over past few days |
For my snowbird friends --yesterday we had our first day below 70F/20C since last Spring! Humidity dropped and it was gorgeous outside! Sadly this week is forecast for another 90F/32C ++ forecast.Fortunately, sea turtle nesting season is all but over, although the red tide has impacted most marine life. At Sea Turtle Trackers we do educational events all year round and last night was such a pleasant evening to be out at a festival promoting conservation.
This is the brand new [Raymond] James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art in St Petersburg. The entrance is a spectacular Arroyo Sculpture Court made to look like a western canyon (but with sandstone quarried in India - go figure . . .) complete with a 'waterfall' including sculptured water.
An Arroyo is a steep-sided gully cut by running water in an arid or semiarid region also known as a dry creek bed/gulch or wash. I recommend the museum and on Tuesdays entrance is 1/2 price.
It is a beautiful building done by the same architect, Yann Weymouth, as the local Dali Museum - converted from a call center & parking garage!! I was taken by the architecture and fascinated by the choice of the picture frames and how much that changes how one sees the artwork. The art is good too - LOL. Photos just don't do the entrance lobby/exhibit space justice.
And for those hot/red tide days when going outside is unpleasant, here's what I have been up to -- just getting into the holiday spirit --
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| baskets from odd 'scraps' |
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| pictured on side to show detail |
Loving the basket work!
ReplyDeleteDuring the Great American Beach Cleanup Saturday (20th) we found a few dead fish, the expected cig butts and a full sized coat rack! Temperatures and humidity dropped Sunday and today is quite pleasant with our windows wide open to the Gulf; has a Florida autumn finally arrived? That said on our morning beach walk, we found many small dead fish; the red tide cleanup crews are out again this morning doing all they can. What we need now is cooler water in addition to even cooler air temperatures!
ReplyDeleteUpdate for my snowbird neighbours: Strong 20+ MPH winds from the remnants of Pacific Hurricane Willa are today blowing from the west across the Gulf of Mexico, creating high surf and again pushing some dead fish up on shore. Our county contractors are busy cleaning up as fast as they can! Rip Tide warnings are in effect.
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