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.
“This is a disaster for our area. It’s truly heartbreaking.”
Ha Ha too damn bad!!!!
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.
Ivan messed up the beaches in 2004 and they’re better now than they were then due to the dredging.
Never seen a tar ball on Navarre Beach? I won’t argue, as I don’t live there - and only looked at the beach there. But saw tar balls every day we were at Pensacola Beach (and we actually spent our time East of the actual Pensacola Beach area on the national seashore area. But they were nothing like the little oil drops and tar balls we saw at Mobile just a short distance West. And the Mississippi shoreline all the way to NO is a crap-shoot as far as oil and tar balls.
I also know others personally who live in various locations all along the Gulf... and all say they have seen tar balls before.
I know the popular beach areas are kept pretty well groomed...