This will be an ongoing log of how many times we experience red tide on LGI and in the surrounding county waters. Plus now an ongoing log for the rest of the USA. The log will start on the present day and work to previous days. We've been experiencing red tide consistently for years out here, now this will show how often we feel or see it.

The red tide foam comes rolling in. Anyone ever study the toxins and levels of toxins in this stuff? It makes the sand hard and crunchy, does this leave high levels in the sand and grasses? A dog with it's nose in this stuff would be getting direct injection into it's system. Want to swim in this stuff?

Red tide foam.

Oct 07 it has appeared again in the panhandle of Fl. and on the eastern coast of Fl. up by Jacksonville. Could the past flooding rains have added to it?

Feb 07 ongoing low to med red tide blooms throughout the west coast of florida. Texas, Mexico and Bali all checking in with Red Tide.

Dec 06 still present off and on in low doses

Nov 06  present up and down the coast

Oct 23, 06

Heavy along collier county coastline, 23 turtles dead in the past few weeks. Also spotty along Charlotte coiunty costline and Sarasota county.

Sept 26th 06 Still present all around SW coast of Florida.

Sanibel beaches are closed because of bacteria

Sept 06  Southwest coast  all over  

July 29th.. Lee county, Charlotte county, Little Gasparilla Island

July 24th Pine island sound, Boca Grande pass and still getting reports from Captiva, Sanibel and Fort Myers.

July 15th, Red tide is being reported thruoughout the West coast of Florida. Reports of rashes and severe respitory problems are coming into the website.  We can feel it in the air here on Little Gasparilla when the wind blows from the south.

July 06, Here we go again. The last months were virtually clear of red tide on Little Gasparilla. Siesta key, and areas which have seen red tide ongoing still reported traces of it throughout the year.

Now with the summer heavy rains it is appearing in Collier county, Lee county , Sarasota counties and Charllotte. Oy..

All of October 05  most of the gulf coast reported red tide

September 18th, 05 Naples Fort Myers, Englewood, Boca Grande

Sanibel, Sarasota, Annamaria, Dunedin, and North. Katrina did not dissipate it.  The toxic waters coming from La, Miss, Al may be a timebomb for the gulf. Reports were coming in before the hurricane of a strong red tide in the upper gulf areas and people getting bad viral sinus and other infections after swimming in the gulf.

August 30th, it's still going strong all around the west cost of Fl

It's still in CA.. same reports

August 13th CASunday, August 14, 2005 update; Newport Beach, CALocation: Corona del Mar State Beach
Extensive red tide from West Newport to Little Corona del Mar State
Beach; red tide extends from shore line to 0.5 miles or more; 2 - 3 foot visibility; strong odor and taste.  Persistent throughout the entire
summer from May, 2005, forward.

August 13th CARLSBAD CA, lots of letters coming in.

August 13th Fort Desoto Beach Fl

Augu 13th, Little Gasparilla Island We've experienced light red tide. North of us Continues to get hammered. There are high sea turtle mortality reports coming in from Mote and FWRI.

SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
A red tide bloom remains along coastal and offshore areas of southwest Florida. The coastal extent of the bloom ranges from Honeymoon Island (Pinellas County) along the north to Redfish Pass (Lee County) along the south, which indicates a southern expansion of the bloom compared to last week’s report. Concentrations of K. brevis have fluctuated over the past several weeks in most areas. The offshore benthic mortalities and associated fish kills reported last week from Tarpon Springs to Sarasota have been under intensive investigation this week (additional details and background information are provided in the article Offshore RedTide-Associated Mortalities and FWRI Event http://research.myfwc.com/features/view_article.asp?id=25276

August 11th Ca, and Naples Fl. Slight in Englewood, gone on LGI, STill in Anna maria , Siesta Key.

August 10th, Tampa Bay and Venice Fl

August 8th, Huntingoton Beach, Encinatas CA
I live a couple of blocks from the ocean in
Encinitas, CA (approx 12 miles north of San Diego).  We had a really bad red tide in  June (wasn't keeping track then but perhaps 4 to 5 weeks long), then it just seemed to go away for most of July.  On Aug. 3rd or 4th it came back worse than before.  Lots of dead jellyfish in the water too.  I've lived here for 7 years and don't recall ever seeing a summer like this one.
July 23rd TAmpa Bay FL

July 23rd

July  11-23rd. Still in West coast of Florida, Sarasota and up north and all points of Ca LA North to SC. REdondo beach etc. Nothings changed.

Have not heard from New England.

July 9th Dana Point Beach CA,

I have been in Dana Point harbour the last 2 evenings (wed-thur) Red tide is BAD.  The water does get blue once you leave the harbour mouth.  Have not been to beach can't report on them.

July 9th Hermosa Beach Ca.   Red tide for two months.

July 7th Redondo Beach CA.I just wanted to update you on the California beaches.  We still have Red Tide.  It's not as smelly as before but it is just as dirty. Tried to go kayaking yesterday (July 7) in Redondo Beach and couldn't because it was so nasty in the harbor.  How long will it
last?

July 7th, Dunedin Florida, says its real bad, dead manatee, goliath grouper, trout, black tip sharks.

July 7th. West coast Of Florida, Englewood, Venice, Sarasota, Charlotte harbor Medium levels

July 5th Baja just checked in AGAIN>. Yuck is the word from there.

July 7th. NE checked in ,, still there. People are getting rashes from it.

Ca? hows' things there?

June 22, Red tide covers 70 miles of coastline in CA.  Dana Point California all the way down to the southern tip of San Clemente and into San Diego (according to news articles).  I was reading about problems as far North as Redondo Beach -- this could all be connected and be a 70 mile red tide

June 22 05 North Redington Beach Fl. Red tide now coming into the waterways.

June 21st Southwest coast of Florida, Indian Rocks to Englewood is covered. Sounds bad especially in Anna Maria island. Indian rocks, ST. Pete, Englewood, Siesta Key, Bradenton beach, all have checked in with bad red tide.

June 15th Baja Mexico, four months of red tide

June 12th, NE Cape Cod Bay, NH, Maine

June 10th, Santa Monica Ca, Ca. coast.

June 7th, Nantucket checks in with red tide. Selfish beds are closed.

June 5+6, Huntington Beach checks in with bad red tide and mammals dieing.

June 4th, More emails coming in from Redondo area. Get some fresh air guys.......

June 3rd. Emails from California are telling that there is a very toxic tide in the southern areas of California. Redondo Beach, Santa Monica Bay,, whats going on over there,/?? Sounds Bad.

June 2nd  Englewood/Sarasota area. Here we go again.

May, 31st, high levels in Sarasota county.

April 23rd, nothing in sight...

April 18th, happy b-day mom.. nothing in sight..

April 10th, Clear here, sighted up in Sarasota area.

March 28th, Brandenton, Sarasota Area.. Watch your dogs..We are clear of it here on LGI, but a strong cold front may push it back into the area.

Report March 28th, from Sandy Roland on Venice Beach.. no sign of red tide, but still the smell of dead fish.. she's keeping her dog out of the water.

March 13 2005 The west coast of Florida is having a bad time with the red tide, WE are all getting very sick from this exposure.  If you live on the water you know what is going on . No one that lives on the water can go outside, work outside without problems or stay outside. Our systems cannot take anyomore, WE even cough inside our own homes. The fish that survive the first onslaught still have a buildup of red tide in their systems, as the redtide continues the fish build up more in their systems, the dolphin, birds and Humans eat these, then get sick. Example, manatees and dolphins have to come up and breath in the red tide waters to live. If we had to sit at water height and breath that air would we still be alive? Probably not.

March 13, 2005, Little Gasparilla, Boca Grande, Englewood, Sarasota, Fort Myers, Cayo Costa, Capitiva, Upper Captiva, Sanibel, Charlotte Harbor, all have been affected for 5 weeks from red Tide. It will not go away..

Feburary 10th, 2005 massive  red tide from Collier county to St Petersburg, it's now in the bays and estuaries. Fish kill is high and water quality very bad. Respiratory problems are affecting alot of people.

January,11,2005 massive bloom off of St Petersburg Fl. Coming south.

December, 2004 large bloom off of Naples Fl area

November 11th 2004 ,, nothing in sight.

October 31st. We have not experienced red tide for almost a year. Hopefully, the floodwater runoff from 4 hurricanes will not cause an outbreak.

August 2nd, nothing in sight.  We've had many inches of rain in the last week and we'll see if we get a redtide bloom from all of the runoff.

Two large algae blooms spotted: July 1st. One north of the keys in the Gulf. Another up in the Big Bend area in northern Florida.

May 2004, sporadic pods off of Sarasota continue to cause problems on the coastline.  Nothing seen down here on LGI.

See this link for Dolphin death /updates/ April http://www.floridamarine.org/features/view_article.asp?id=21893

April 13th , Sporadic low counts around West Coast Of Florida, fishermen reported yellow water off of Charlotte county before the rain storms of the last week.

Feb 17th, Seems to be from Manatee,Sarasota down past Charlotte Harbor. Everyone is complaining of high Irration, and respiratory distress. I have not stopped sneezing for two days.

February 8th, North wind is kicking up alot of irritants and we are still coughing.

February 7th, High concentrations north 2 miles of the island, seems to be located in Stump Pass.

February 6th, We are now feeling the red tide here. Lots of irration to the nose and lungs. No sign of dead fish

February 3rd, Seems to be off of Sarasota county.

January 13th, Red tide is off of St. Petersburg fl.

Nov. 10th, No sign of red tide, water is clear

Nov. 5th, no sign of the red tide, water is cleaner

Nov. 4th. Things are fine, water is clear, cross our fingers..

Oct 16th. Red tide is still here but not as instense.

Fish kill is light on the bay side.

Oct 14th, We're having a hell of a time here on LGI, Can't breath, lungs and throats are burning, Two reports of people with migraines, we all have to live and work in this. I'm at the computer, coughing and sneezing. Hopefully the N.winds will die down in a few days. The dogs are all sneezing and coughing. Inside seems to be just as bad as outside.

Oct 13th and 14th, Dave Valentine, Manasota Key,

Choked through the night 13th 14th with all the
symptoms of your dogs and played unco-ordinated golf both days I have to agree it's a problem! However, we looked and looked and saw no 'red tide'. My suspicion is that it is always (invisibly) there waiting for a whipped up sea and and an 'inshore' wind to get us.
Have you tried 'smog' masks? If so, do they work. Failing that I would suggest anti-asthma inhalers such as Salbutamol or beclomethasone both for humans and animals.
Next year, ( I was a UK Doc) I intend to bring both cos there's no darned way I'll pay a US one $100 just for the 'pleasure' of meeting him!

Oct 13th, High concentrations off of Englewood to Boca Grande. tommorow will be bad. Reports of fish kill have started. I don't want to walk to the beach to check, I can't breath.

Oct 3rd,

The red tide remains offshore on the Southwest coast. Right now there are no high concentrations noticed anywhere. There are sporadic pods which come and go with the winds and waves. Last week Little Gasparilla  island, Manasota key, and Englewood, in Charlotte county experienced a few days of full blown red tide, whipped up by and blown in by  the west winds.

Sept 29th, Red tide is here again. Fish kill is light on gulf side and bayside. Birds are feeding on dead and dieing  fish on both sides of the island.