the mill pond that was haulover north

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the mill pond that was haulover north

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I have NEVER seen it like this (granted I come a lot in the winter) but it was brilliant (besides a ton of flotsam and not an insignificant amount of jetsam on the shore. ) the left side was really gorgeous great coral . more soon
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You must have had calmer seas today! Last Saturday was a surfers paradise! No way we were gonna try to snorkel there :shock:
I wondered what you called all that stuff on the shoreline (flotsam/jetsam) I just called it crazy seaweed! :?
Glad you made it and starting out with such great snorkeling! Keep us posted on the rest of your adventures~~ :wink:
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We weren't out to Haulover North, but I must say that today, after the AM showers, there was just NO breeze at all, and the ocean all around STJ was just as flat as a pancake. So it would make some sense that HN would be calm, I guess. Great for you for the snorkeling there! Most of the time, conditions there are much more as msgcollen describes them...
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msgcolleen wrote:You must have had calmer seas today! Last Saturday was a surfers paradise! No way we were gonna try to snorkel there :shock:
I wondered what you called all that stuff on the shoreline (flotsam/jetsam) I just called it crazy seaweed! :?
Glad you made it and starting out with such great snorkeling! Keep us posted on the rest of your adventures~~ :wink:
well Flotsam is stuff that is naturally occurring (seaweed, wood, whatever) jet some is stuff that has been jettisoned basically (as far as i understand) so garbage....
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Well, technically, (from Wikipedia, and confirmed with m-w.com):
>>Flotsam is floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo. Jetsam is part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is purposefully cast overboard or jettisoned to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore.<<

However, I believe all of us use it in a much broader sense, and in the posts above. I actually thought that flotsam was the stuff that floated, and jetsam was the stuff that eventually sank. What do I know??
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