An oil sheen I found at sunset this afternoon 100 yards off the beach at Shell Point, 28 miles south of Tallahassee, Florida.  While the sheen was large and reeked of gas smell, where I live is 165 miles east of Pensacola Beach.  The Wakulla County Emergency Management will be out in the morning to hopefully find a different source of the spill.  Those of us living along the Gulf Coast feel deeply for our counterparts in Louisana, Mississippi and Alabama and pray everyday it doesn’t come this way.

The path my boat cut through the oil sheen with Shell Point beach in the background.

I find this evening’s discovery deeply disturbing and will be back out at first light.

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