{"id":2798,"date":"2014-11-25T13:21:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T18:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2014-12-23T14:34:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T19:34:17","slug":"sargassum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=2798","title":{"rendered":"Sargassum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The beach is a dynamic place, and has many faces. Like the seasons, it\u2019s ever changing. The warm Gulf Stream meanders in and out, and even influences our weather.<\/p>\n<p>A sure sign of the Gulf Stream is the presence of seaweed washed up on the beach. Sargassum is a free floating seaweed that drifts in island-like masses and goes with the current. It is an important habitat for various forms of marine life while at sea. It provides food and protection for juvenile fish and invertebrates.<\/p>\n<p>When it washes up on the beach, it attracts birds and other creatures that feed around it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2799\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/close-up.jpg\" alt=\"close up\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/close-up.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/close-up-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/birds1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2805\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/birds1.jpg\" alt=\"birds\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/birds1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/birds1-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>During Summer and Fall, sargassum can drift up in huge rafts.<a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/seaweed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2802\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/seaweed.jpg\" alt=\"seaweed\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/seaweed.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/seaweed-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Eventually it dries and decomposes. I&#8217;ve used it in my garden after it&#8217;s rinsed and composted.<a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/marryme.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2803\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/marryme.jpg\" alt=\"marryme\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/marryme.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/marryme-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Last month while on a beach walk, I noticed another use for sargassum. <a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/verticle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2804\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/verticle.jpg\" alt=\"verticle\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/verticle.jpg 334w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/verticle-267x400.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I don&#8217;t know who the author of this message was, but considering the effort, I hope the answer was an emphatic &#8220;YES&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beach is a dynamic place, and has many faces. Like the seasons, it\u2019s ever changing. The warm Gulf Stream meanders in and out, and even influences our weather. A sure sign of the Gulf Stream is the presence of seaweed washed up on the beach. Sargassum is a free floating seaweed that drifts in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3,26,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach","category-birds","category-outer-banks","category-sea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2798"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2851,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions\/2851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}