Piles of seaweed on a beach have a concentrated sea essence, the potent perfume version of the tantalizing ocean cologne sensed from afar when approaching a healthy beach or bay or marsh. For much of Florida, however, and for coastal areas everywhere, that essence has changed, and today I would not welcome the comparison to coastal aromas. Heaps...Learn More

...as a child I first fell in love with the froth-topped waves crashing green, cold water on clean, pale sand along the New Jersey shore, and with the creatures there: sand crabs, starfish, glistening jellies, bristling tangles of red and brown seaweed, and sometimes the strangest, most formidable-looking but gentle beasts imaginable---horseshoe...Learn More