His happy place is exactly 100 yards past the sandbar, just as the sun is hitting the horizon. Wrobel, the man who enjoyed a ride tide-free walk on Redington Beach Thursday, makes the hour drive from his home in Lakeland to stroll the coastline every week.
“In a longer term, this is a good sign for the west Florida coast,” Liu said. Overall, though, the concentrations have been lower than those measured earlier this month. The newest bloom is likely due to the new cells being transported from offshore below the surface, Liu wrote in an email. Knowing that, residents and visitors may want to continue checking the county’s water sampling map on its website, Fabrizio said.Īfter it was beginning to wind down, the bloom has slightly flared up again and the worst of it is currently south of Venice and offshore of Charlotte Harbor, said Yonggang Liu, director of the University of South Florida’s Ocean Circulation Lab. Ocean currents can also shift quickly and bring red tide closer to coastal communities. Still, red tide conditions can change quickly: Onshore winds, which blow from over the Gulf of Mexico to the east, can carry red tide toxins near coastal beaches. “We’re looking good as of Friday,” Fabrizio said.
Fish kills and breathing issues are possible at that level.īut overall, beaches are seeing an improvement. The only exception was Madeira Beach, which had “medium” levels, or 100,000 red tide-causing Karenia brevis cells per liter. The county’s environmental management team last tested the water for red tide on Tuesday and every location saw low or very low levels of the organism that causes blooms, according to spokesperson Tony Fabrizio. Red tide has been dwindling on Pinellas County shores over the past two weeks. Lakeland resident Tom Wrobel, 42, snapped this photo of a beautiful Redington Beach sunset on Thursday.
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