Sargassum
It was such a beautiful day today (70 degrees and sunny in the middle of October?!), I couldn’t help but take the opportunity to stop by Old Silver Beach in Falmouth after work. The most notable thing on the beach was the seaweed that had washed up. Piles of Sargassum had accumulated in the wrack line and at the waters edge. The algae could quickly be identified as belonging to the genus Sargassum based on a handful of unique characteristics:…