10530547466?profile=RESIZE_710xA steady breeze from the east for at least a week piled up mounds of sargassum along the shore in mid-May. Warm temperatures make the naturally occurring seaweed reproduce in large numbers, often to the frustration of beach-goers. ABOVE: A resident picks up trash that floated in with the sargassum. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

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  • Sargassum has been drifting onto the shores of south Florida for hundreds, maybe thousands of years.  I'm sorry that beach-goers are frustrated, but they should try very hard to understand that the world doesn't revolve around them.  

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