Barrier islands seeing red (algae)

Drift algae spread out for hundreds of yards Thursday on Fort Myers Beach like a dense nest of matted red hair, and a red-algae soup roiled in the tumbling gray surf -- eight inches thick in places, the algae started washing ashore Wednesday at Fort Myers Beach and Sanibel as rough seas generated by Tropical Storm Ernesto tore it from the sea floor - Sep. 1, News-Press