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| A kelp pile on Sunset Beach, Huntington, Ca. on May 1, 2011. |
This is a contribution I made back in the Aug 2011 issue of the GBYC Soundings. On
our visits to California I have noticed a lot of Kelp on the beach and in the water
looking like islands. You don't want to get this stuff in your intake or around
your prop.
It appears it only grows in a few places in the world and the US west coast is one of
them. Kelp is an algae and a seaweed, not a plant...it can grow up to 2 feet per
day...or an inch every hour. Chocolate milk, breath strips, blueberry waffles,
and beer all contain alginate, a compound extracted from kelp and used
as a thickener...George
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| Looking north along Sunset beach, Huntington, Ca. May 2011 one can see there was a lot of kelp on the beach this morning. It comes and goes with the tides. |
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