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Making it's way to Maho Beach.

It was very bad at Orient today.
VERY heavy on the south end.

Saw a steady stream float by in front of Flamingo. Luckily nothing came into our beach but I bet BSV got hammered. Hope not.

This is one of many sliding by this morning.

I'm currently sailing from SXM to the Azores and we are about 200NM to the northeast of the island. There is a lot of sargassum out here, more than I've ever seen. And it is headed your way

Huge patches, one after another sliding by nonstop heading west. Can't imagine what the east facing beaches are getting.

It's everywhere, it's everywhere! Just got back from Bermuda. Saw more of it on the south shore beaches there than I have ever seen before at this time of year.

Looking at the cameras and it seems Maho got lucky this time.

Yes. Maho and Mullet typically does get it unless wind is SWerly

Looking at SXM Island Cam, there is a huge mat of sargassum on the water against the beach in front of BSV.

Sad to hear that. Hope it clears out soon.

A friend of mine sent this picture from this morning.

It doesn’t look too bad to me.

Early this morning the sea weed was pushed up against the cliffs of Beacon Hill. Then the wind direction must have changed and pushed it all up against the beach. Take a look and SXM Island Cam before the sunsets. It's bad!!!

Yes. Same sh%t that passed us all day at Flamingo with luckily nothing coming ashore on our beach. Can't imagine other beaches.

Very heavy at Orient yesterday. LOTS of it.

None at Happy Bay today.

jomarc--I guess it depends on whether they raked this morning and this was what came in after they raked.

I find it hard to believe they could keep up with it the way it was floating by and the volume. Going to give Mullet a go tomorrow. Chair reservations all set.

The gardening crew at BSV will have that all cleaned up in no time!!!

Does grand case usually escape the saragassum?

Yes, usually. I've seen very small amounts of it there on occasion.

Yikes! Sorry to hear this. We're leaving Saturday for 2 weeks in Orient Village. Last year the beach was littered with sargassum but all you can do is make the best of it. We enjoyed Friar's Bay and plan to go there several days of our vacation but it's so easy just to walk down to orient beach. How's the breezes? We enjoy it most when there's a nice breeze coming in from the ocean. Are the sand flies bad as well?

Enjoy your trip, Lancer!

We visited Orient last week. Sand flies were prevalent on the northern part of the beach, where the seaweed was.
No sand flies on the Club O section, and minimal seaweed. Nice breezes!

From KKO to Bikini beach the tractor rakes the sargassum nicely!!! We stay at LaPlaya, it's always beautiful and the sand is like powdered sugar!! Never had problems with sand flies!!! Could be the brand of sunscreen??? BTW!!! BEST SUSHI on the island IMHO!!!

I think they were hard pressed to keep up with it last days.

Thanks for the sand fly update Sounds promising.

Orient was filled with seaweed the entire stretch of the beach with nobody cleaning it up. Not even the big places.

In my experience it is really unusual for Orange Fever to not clean up "its" section of the beach. Did you get the impression that the influx of sargassum was simply too much to keep up with?

There was no effort to clean any of it up which we've experienced at Orange Fever before. We arrived at 10.

It’s on Simpson Bay Beach as well. I believe it’s Heather who post for D’s Beach bar. She thanked the Beacon Hill Association for the cleaning up. The statement added on their Instagram Story said that they would be closed until there’s a safe environment for their guests.. The amount of seaweed is massive. Never seen it in person or filmed this thick and wide spread.

There’s a back hoe putting it into big piles. I’ve never seen it that thick and from the video angle if you’re standing in front of D’s looking at the beach, you can see it going down in front of Beachside villas..

Its a big Job and expensive. I am surprised that the Beacon Hill owners would pay to clean up the beach for private beach restaurant. Nice but that can't be cheap, its huge mess and they seaweed always seems to be pushed into that corner. Center I Simpson Bay normally better and a better breeze. Time will tell.

I can see why the association would want it cleaned up and willing to pay for it. The smell from decomposition with toxic fumes couldn't be welcomed. Might be a private beach bar but the beach is public.

Even if you have a tractor what you clean up by 8am might not be evident by 11am.

At some point resignation takes place and you do it something other than daily.

Pinel ferry area was the worst I have seen and smelled in years past.

Literally, “toxic air”. Do not know how someone could become nose blind to that.

Scuba--yes, the beach is public and used by many private houses and rentals in that area, as many people come down to the beach via that stairway at the end of the beach. I hope it lets up soon.

I'm now 700 NM to the northeast of SXM, sailing on towards the Azores. There are still some very small patches of Sargassum out here, but nothing like the dense mats seen closer to the Caribbean. So far, all we could catch with the fishing rod was Sargassum, but the catch was too small so it was released again

Zanshin--does that mean that there will be less seaweed in the future for SXM, at least for now?

@Carol - no, it just means that we've sailed out of the Sargasso Sea area and that our fishing lure might catch something other than sargassum.

Zanshin--OK, just hoping, I guess.