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It\u2019s been devastating to those who have had their homes flooded by the tidal surge from the recent hurricane.\u00a0 The storm has left much erosion on the beach, as well.\u00a0 Anastasia State Park beach has been forever altered.\u00a0 As usual when storms of Matthew\u2019s force pass us, the old inlet tries to wash through to Salt Run. On my walk last week to observe the changes, I noted even more very small pieces of plastics, especially, along \u00a0the thick wrack line in the newly cut area where the inlet tried to wash through.\u00a0 It\u2019s piled thick for three miles along the remaining single dune line.<\/p>\n
As normal for this time of year the past few years, \u00a0the first wrack line near the water, I observed\u00a0nurdles<\/a> and endless amounts of less than 5mm pieces of plastics (microplastics). The microplastics are in numbers too abundant to ever count or clean up. \u00a0Under the all sargassum weed left scattered on the beach remains tons of microplastics that I\u2019ll photograph more next weekend. The spring tides next year will wash some of this back out to the sea and some will be buried as the winter winds approach.\u00a0 The secret of the hidden plastic will again persist in the North Atlantic Gyre unseen.\u00a0 I\u2019ll continue to take my photos and observe the movement of the microplastics this fall and winter.<\/p>\n Below is a link to a few photos and a video taken along the shoreline.\u00a0 There is so much microplastic in the video \u00a0that I stopped pointing out.\u00a0 It goes on for miles. \u00a0What I point out first is a nurdle<\/a>. \u00a0These pieces aren\u2019t piled up like in the dune line, but provide \u00a0an idea of what washes in and out with the tides daily.<\/p>\n Click here to view photos.<\/a><\/p>\n Click for video.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s been devastating to those who have had their homes flooded by the tidal surge from the recent hurricane.\u00a0 The storm has left much erosion on the beach, as well.\u00a0 Anastasia State Park beach has been forever altered.\u00a0 As usual when storms of Matthew\u2019s force pass us, the old inlet tries to wash through to Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microplastics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}