Posted on 06/05/2010 11:43:48 AM PDT by highimpact
Just got back from exploring the beach. I stopped at 3 locations, the main Navarre Beach parking lot (no tar balls found). 3.5 miles west of the main beach parking lot (scattered tar balls, no more than 1 every 10-15 feet, and very small...no larger than a dime). 7.0 miles west of Navarre Beach has been hit hard. Tar balls are everywhere, and up to the size of the sole on my 10M shoe. They are sticky and slimy, with roughly the consistency of petroleum jelly. They stick to the bottom of your shoes when you walk. Surprisingly, when I picked up a small tar ball and held it up to my nose, it didn't smell like much of anything.
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Fret not—nature will clean these up before long. I’m from the Gulf Coast of TX where every once in a while, we’d wake up to find tar balls all along the beaches, with no spill happening.
Down here, oil is sometimes so close to the surface that it just spontaneously bubbles up. No biggee—nature cleans up her messses.
Spent our vacation last Summer in Pensacola (just West of you). Saw a few tar balls every day.
It’s not just a “few” tar balls. They’re coming in fast and furious now. I’ve walked the beautiful white sands of Navarre Beach every day, for the past 7 years. I’ve never seen a tar ball before today. This is a disaster for our area. It’s truly heartbreaking.
Wifey and I became big fans of the area about this time last year, upon spending a couple of days on the beachfront at Destin.
So what!!!
every beach in Southern California was covered with tar for hundreds of years from natural oil seepage until they installed the offshore oil rigs and started drilling.
“This is a disaster for our area. It’s truly heartbreaking.”
Ha Ha too damn bad!!!!
You are not seeing TAR balls but BamBamKennedy balls. This is his gusher and he deserves every bit of credit for every ball that gets washed ashore.
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Destin’s nice, but it gets really crowded this time of year. It can take an hour to drive one mile on the main strip. The beaches in Navarre are just as nice, and you don’t have to fight the crowds (except today, which is Billy Bowlegs...a giant beach party that stretches from Destin to Pensacola). Most of the die-hard Billy Bowleggers are out on Crab Island today (which isn’t really an island, it’s really shallow water just north of the Destin bridge where several thousand boats anchor together. Then everybody gets drunk and girls tops (and some bottoms) start coming off. I’m not big into that kind of debauchery, so I stay home with the kids and wife :).
What the hell is wrong with you? Why would you say something liket that? Disgusting of you. Shameful.
Tar on the beach is no big deal!!!
Let him get in a tin washtub and his mother can scrub him down with kerosene just like I had to do when I was a kid.
Does anyone know how to find/access satellite recent (June) pictures of the whole gulf? All I can find is pictures of the area immediately around the well and the Delta.
What’s your problem?
Your complaining about tar on a beach!!!
Go cry to your mother!
“Let him get in a tin washtub and his mother can scrub him down with kerosene just like I had to do when I was a kid.”
That explains a lot.
You’re an ass....or senile..or both.
Not senile but proud to be a mean bastard!!!
I am just up the coast from you and we are getting a bit apprehensive. I envision a dearth of rentals and a new wave of condo foreclosures and fire-sales and a second half summer season at a lower level than the slowest month of the winter season.
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