More Pretty & Gross Oil Blobs

It's been more than a month and there are still little oil blobs on the beach.

And I still think they are pretty.

So I keep taking these close up 3d pictures of them.

I guess there are a lot fewer of them now which is a good sign but it's still a bit depressing to think about how nasty these things are for the wild life -:\

Yucky Oil, Pretty Oil.

So someone went and crashed a cargo ship into the bay bridge and dumped a bunch of fuel into the bay that ended up all over the beaches here in SF. The fuel oil has caused all kinds of problems for the wild life, fisher persons and surfers (a.k.a. Me!). The local beach and water was closed for a few weeks and some of the other surf spots were closed for a few days. Our beach was just opened to walk on last week so we went down to check it out. A park ranger guy was cleaning up the oil and showed us what it looked like and where it was most likely to be so we could avoid it. I have to say as bad as this stuff is for the environment the small blobs we saw were kind of pretty. They were mostly about the size of a dime or smaller. Here is what one looked like up close and in 3D.

Another picture. The actual kind of fuel also had sort of an ominous and at the same time interesting name, bunker fuel.

It's pretty but don't touch, it's supposed to be really bad stuff.