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Casuarina beach stinking
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2018 10:56 am
by Jeno
Just a quick note, the family and I went for a walk down at Casuarina beach yesterday evening....there was a decided smell coming off the beach. Soon worked out what the smell was as the tide started to flood in bringing with it a carpet of a dark green algae bloom. It was frothing up on the beaching waves and I saw absolutely no bait fish down there at all! This didn't look like the usual reef/coral spawn that you get, definitely an algae type substance.
Anyway just thought it might be of interest.
Re: Casuarina beach stinking
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2018 12:21 pm
by Matt Flynn
Re: Casuarina beach stinking
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2018 3:43 pm
by jeffish
Hmmm , just after big springs maybe an untreated discharge from Buff ck . Release the pooooooo
Re: Casuarina beach stinking
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2018 6:20 pm
by Captain6979
Heh heh....."discharge"...... Gosh I love that word!!! Ha ha!
Re: Casuarina beach stinking
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2018 9:36 am
by Jeno
I reckon that would be it Matt....I hadn't seen that report but definitely what we encountered....and as I said it was more an algae bloom than coral spawn.
Re: Casuarina beach stinking
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2018 9:51 am
by Matt Flynn
Usually "coral spawn" is trichodesmium ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichodesmium
Seems to be more of it around. I asked a long-term local at Dingo Beach, Qld, if there was more around his area in recent years and he seemed to think so.