Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Floaters

This was on a shore north of Oyster Bay; the usual; rocks and sea lettuce, sea and sky. And, coming in to shore, a crowd of floaters. Logs, scraps of wood, seaweed (mainly rockweed), sticks and old leaves. And a lonely gull.

Oyster Bay, centre to right.

I wonder: sometimes the water is clear, with maybe one or two distant logs. During spring storms, the waves carry big logs, sweeping them off one shore to deposit on the next. High tides in the fall bring in masses of kelp and eelgrass to build mounds along the top of the intertidal zone. And sometimes, there's all this smaller debris. Why? Where does it come from?

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Esta foto muestra la costa al norte de Oyster Bay. Tiene lo de siempre: piedras y algas marinas (en este caso, lechuga de mar, Ulva spp.), mar y cielo. Y aquí, camino a la playa, una multitud de cosas flotantes. Troncones, fragmentos de madera, algas marinas (Sargasso vejigoso por la mayor parte), palitos y hojas viejas. Y una gaviota solitaria.

Me hace pensar. A veces el agua está limpia, no trae nada más que uno que otro troncón en la distancia. Durante las tempestades de primavera, las olas llevan troncos grandes, barriéndolos de una playa para depositarlos en la próxima. Las mareas altas de otoño cargan gran número de quelpos y hierba marina Zostera, que apilan a lo largo de la playa. Y a veces, nos llega toda esta basurita. ¿Porqué será?  ¿De dónde viene?


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