Hello everyone, and happy Monday!
So I’ve read your posts and comments online, and I see that many of you are curious what the current sargassum situation is. So that’s exactly what I plan to chat about today. 🙂
Let’s start by saying that sargassum is not an issue at the most popular beaches around the island. We did have a storm a few weeks ago, which caused the winds to shift a bit and that did push some sargassum onto beaches that typically do not get it. Hawksnest, for example, has some dried up sargassum currently. Trunk Bay does too. There hasn’t been any new sargassum floating around these bays, which is good. And the sargassum that has come onto the beaches is dry; therefore it does not stink.
There are few stinky areas, however, most notably Coral Bay and Fish Bay. The entrance of Fish Bay stinks to high heaven, as does the area around the curve where the dumpsters are in Coral Bay. There is an abundance of sargassum in those areas still, and quite frankly, it just stinks.
I did see some on little Reef Bay beach the other day, but that’s normal because it’s an east-facing beach.
The winds here typically come out of the east. If you are looking at the water at Cinnamon Bay, for example, east is to your right. The winds blow the sargassum past most of our best beaches, and then it lands on the eastern-facing beaches of St. Thomas. Unfortunately, this induces the Ritz, Sapphire and Margaritaville among other places.
So if you are coming to visit us in the near future, you have nothing to worry about in terms of the sargassum. It is super rare for it to land on the popular spots like Caneel, Hawksnest, Trunk, Cinnamon and Maho. So no need s=to stress. 🙂
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