Check out the Sunset Bar Beach Cam. What a mess

Link to SSBB webcam

Unusual to get seaweed there.

Thanks for posting the link Carol, don't know how to do that. I checked the weather and the wind is out of the south west instead of the prevailing east direction. I would imagine that Simpsons Bay would also be getting it also.

Todd posted earlier today that they were getting some at Karakter, but it surely didn't look as bad as this!!

Screenshot from my phone

I'm anchored out in Simpson Bay and see pretty big chunks of sargassum drifting by and heading towards the beach. The winds are going to be light and variable for the next couple of days and this is causing the stuff to drift on in...

Yuck. Very unusual for this to show on that beach. I imagine Mullet and other south facing beaches are experiencing the same.

I saw a few long patches of it between here and Anguilla when I flew over on Monday. It has arrived. We had a small amount wash up at Royal Islander a few hours ago, but it went back out for the most part. Only a few bits remain between the RIC beach stairs and the Sonesta, at least. Can’t believe what I’m seeing down at Sunset. That’ll put a damper on your day.

There’s a long string of it coming in now headed toward Tortuga/Driftwood. Yikes.

Climate change .

That is unbelievable!! Thanks for sharing the photo! There is almost never sargassum at Maho!! I wonder who raked it up???

No one has raked it up....yet. That's where mother nature has left it, in a pile. The SSBB chair rental's won't look to attractive today with that mess in front of them. Three ships in port today.

Mullet Beach was getting hit with sargassum as well.

We are at Divi, and I am sitting on my porch watching a tractor with a plow pushing the sargassum down the smaller Little Bay beach to clear off an area so people can swim. It is piled high! We have been coming here for 28 years at this time of year, and have never seen this before. Yesterday we were at the Sunset Beach Bar for lunch, and saw a smaller amount accumulating on Maho beach.

So far, the chair guys have just left the chairs there at Sunset in a pile. Rough day today, with three ships in.

With the winds out of the west today I would expect there is more to come in today. The winds tomorrow will be out the north and eventually the north east later tomorrow.

None on Great Bay.

Mullet Bay today. Most of the Sargassum is from Rosie's ast DaWaterholeto the end. Very slow beach day.

Cupecoy - Beach Club to “ocean club”

Mullet looks like the way Orient Beach was last week. Orient gradually got better as the week went on.

thanks for the pictures, debnken and kim. Looks gruesome!

on another forum...saw pictures of Mullett, filled with the damn stuff too....but Orient Beach is clear. go figure.

"but Orient Beach is clear. go figure"
All because of wind direction.

Checked the SSBB cam, (6:20am 03-10-23)) looks like mother nature did some clean up from yesterday. I can't believe that the beach guys didn't rake??? You would think, that would be "Job one" considering that the beach is there livelihood!!! SMH!!!

Scuba--JD already posted that same story in the Mullet Bay thread.

I know. I saw that after I posted it here.

Maho has be cleaned up .

Can’t attach picture but at 6:30 AM Today. All cleaned up and clear

It appears this is just the beginning of a long sargassum season in the Caribbean.
NBC News LINK
Climate change contributes, yes, coupled with fertilizer runoff into major rivers that provides the nitrogen nutrient fueling sargassum growth.

Looks like there is more coming in , as seen on the SSBB webcam

Yes same in Simpson Bay. They cleaned up in front of our place and as they did more came in.

Yesterday both Maho and Mullet were pretty clear and much calmer but both were packed with people. Today there is seaweed in front of Atrium and it looks like Simpson Bay has been hit also.

The winds were strong from the west in Simpson Bay all day and most of the night, shoving the weed in. From today onwards normal easterlies will prevail again and those beaches, once cleared, should remain clear of that pernicious and stinking algae. I just looked outside and see clumps of Sargassum drifting past and heading out to sea...