{"id":1094,"date":"2015-10-15T15:17:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2024-02-20T14:40:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T18:40:15","slug":"barbados-seaweed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/barbados-seaweed\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbados &#038; Seaweed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the early months\u00a0of 2015 and into the summer, beaches in Barbados, the Caribbean and Mexico were affected by the presence of excessive amounts of\u00a0Sargassum seaweed.<\/p>\n<p>Due the flow of ocean currents around Barbados, the beaches on the east coast and the south south (short of Hilton hotel on the south-west point) were the most badly affected. West coast beaches were mostly\u00a0unaffected, remaining with crystal-clear waters and pristine sandy shores.<\/p>\n<p>Since Barbados is a small island (just 166 sq. miles) many guests staying on the south coast chose to travel by car, bus or taxi to an alternative beach on the west coast, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbados.org\/bcbrownesbeach.htm\">Browne&#8217;s Beach<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbados.org\/carlisle-bay-barbados.htm\">Carlisle Bay<\/a> being a particular favourite. But clearly this was an inconvenience to those guests, and a surprise to many of our repeat visitors who have never experienced this phenomenon before.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1095\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1095\" class=\"wp-image-1095 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/barbados-seaweed.jpg\" alt=\"Sargassum Seaweed\" width=\"585\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/barbados-seaweed.jpg 585w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/barbados-seaweed-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sargassum Seaweed On The East Coast of Barbados<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hotel employees, the National Conservation Commission and citizens worked tireless to clean the beaches, but the seaweed kept on coming!<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately it abated in the late summer, with our beaches looking lovely once more!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1096\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1096\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1096\" src=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/clean-beach.jpg\" alt=\"Clean beach at Accra on the south coast of Barbados\" width=\"585\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/clean-beach.jpg 585w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/clean-beach-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clean beach at Accra on the south coast of Barbados<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many plans have been put in place should the seaweed return, including more sophisticated beach-cleaning equipment (which does not damage the beach or turtle nests) and a seaweed boom at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booking.com\/hotel\/bb\/the-crane-resort.html?aid=875929\">Crane Resort<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the early months of 2015 and into the summer, beaches in Barbados, the Caribbean and Mexico were affected by the presence of excessive amounts of Sargassum seaweed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[326,327],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}