Good Morning!

[Paul B]

Fish Fan, I was born in Brooklyn.

 

[Fish Fan]

Fish Fan, I was born in Brooklyn.

Very cool! I've been (mostly) upstate since I was a kid, currently just north of Canandaiagua

 

[Paul B]

Nothing exciting on my morning beach walk except this lobster buoy. I did try to rescue 3 horseshoe crabs but they were too dead to be helped.


I left it there but many people hang them on their property.

It's hard to see here because it was very sunny, but I have 4 types of seaweed that I can find here in the surf.


There is bladderwrack, Codium, Ulva or sea lettuce and some other red and Bladderwrack and Ulva won't live in a tropical tank but the Codium does for a few months if you don't have urchins who eat it. The codium is the thicker stuff.

 

[fishguy242]

Good morning...

 

[Paul B]

My morning beach walk started as usual. As I walked along the beach at low tide I came across a horseshoe crab on it's back. I gently kicked it and noticed that it was dead so I couldn't save it as I would normally do.


I resumed my walk not noticing much in front of me because I keep looking at the sand in search for anything interesting.
I walked towards the water over the very slippery algae covered rocks in the hopes that one that I turned over would reward me with a handful of amphipods as they normally did in the past. But there was nothing, not even one amphipod.

I also only found one, invasive Japanese Shore crab. A species that just two years ago used to cover all the spaces under these rocks.
There was nothing alive. No baby eels, worms, crabs, snails or even barnacles.

I heard a woman calling me and I looked up to see an Asian Woman in her 60s pointing at something in the water.

It was this Heron.


Normally they stand in shallow water looking for something to eat. I remarked that it was beautiful and walked towards the woman.
In her broken English, She asked me if I was looking for mussels, clams or oysters. I told her, No, and was trying to think of how I was going to explain "amphipod" to her in her limited understanding of my language.

She seemed to understand and told me she had lived here for 25 years and used to come here to this beach to collect shellfish and swim. She said there used to be many seagulls that would pick up shellfish and drop them on the rocks to crush them so they could eat them.

Now, except for two seagulls, they were all gone along with the shellfish.

WE walked and discussed how dead the sea near here is now. The birds, fish and shellfish are mostly gone to be replaced by seaweed.
This is due to all the farms and golf courses lining the Long Island Sound on eastern Long Island.

We agreed on this and she said, it is a terrible thing that we are doing to the ocean. I agreed with her and we went our separate ways.
I hope to see her again so we can continue our discussion.

 

[Paul B]

Good Morning. This morning on my beach walk I again bumped into that Asian Lady that I met this week. WE discussed the terrible shape of the ocean where my beach is. It is scary. But the sunrise is always great.

 

[Paul B]

On my morning walk this morning I found two things. One was the other side of that boulder that I found last week. Someone must have took it away, then carried it back.

The other thing was this Huge hermit crab. I have been diving and walking the shore here all my life and I never seen one nearly this big.

If I had something to put it in, I would have taken him home for a while to study. Then I would have let him go.

 

[CBonito]

The fertilizer is one thing, and the fact that the east river and Laguardia Airport drains partially into the sound isn't a good thing either. The Hudson and East Rivers are disgusting. All kinds of industrial runoff and illegal dumping. They advertise all of the great ways they are cleaning up things, but I call Bull. When I was a kid there, you didn't have everything covered in algae like now. The rocks were clean and there were tons of crabs and starfish everywhere same in the water. We used to go out a little further on the sound and catch flounder. And who know's what's happening on the CT side. They're just destroying everything.

The Gowanus Canal is another one in Brooklyn. They claim to have cleaned it up, but all they did was add a little bit of aeration and dredge to a certain depth. You'll never get the pollution out of there either.They've been dumping chemicals in there since the industrial revolution.

I've love to see an analysis of the water and soil there.

 

[Paul B]

CBonita, the Gowanus canal is hardly even water but crabs do live there. I am not sure how.
That has to be the filthiest body of water in the States.

 

[Paul B]

Am I the only Idiot who walks in the morning? Where is everyone in the morning?

My morning beach walk was a dud. It was very windy, and the waves were up to the bulkhead and I didn't want to swim back. It was also a little dark as it gets at this time of the year. Soon I will have to bring my flashlight.