
Photographed August 27, 2015

Photographed August 27, 2015

Photographed August 25, 2015
When I returned to this particular breakwater this year, I found a whole slew of Cladophora algae piled at the catwalk.
Here’s a BEFORE (last year) and AFTER (this year):
and another BEFORE and AFTER:
Whoa.


Before: Photographed July 23, 2013
After: Photographed September 17, 2014
Photographed August 2, 2013
Cladophora is a species of green algae that grows on submerged rocks.
After it dies, it washes up onto the beach and rots. Unfortunately, rotting algae (and any dead animal trapped in it) smells like raw sewage.

Ick.

Photographed August 2, 2013
Photographed June 7, 2013
Photographed June 7, 2013