Today I met up with a good friend, and sometimes editor, to do a test run for the One Ton Landed cleanups near Titusville. In our brilliance we decided the night before to bring out our kayaks and gear to try for a short paddle and sight additional cleanup spots (as well as look [...]
I chose a different area to cleanup today along the northern IRL and finally ran across enormous evidence of fish kills that were reported from many of Florida’s coastal waterways following the freeze. On a single 300 ft stretch of beachline (about a football field length) I found 621 dead burrfish, 5 northern pufferfish, 18 [...]
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s research institute said today that over 100 manatee carcasses were documented in Florida waters following the cold snap during the first half of January. A full 77 of the deaths are currently attributed to cold stress with several losses of perinatal (or newborn) calves. This count beats last [...]
And yes, dear friends, I’m calling it my Lagoon. Many of my fellow ‘bloggers are taking the chance at the beginning of the year to round out some new resolutions in their ocean blogging, their personal lives, or in greening their lifestyles. I’m going to attempt to all three at once by recommitting myself to [...]