{"id":6302,"date":"2014-08-27T06:52:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T05:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umhlangauip.co.za\/site\/?p=6302"},"modified":"2024-10-22T20:36:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T18:36:16","slug":"fishy-smell-on-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umhlangauip.co.za\/site\/fishy-smell-on-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishy Smell On Beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few days beach visitors were picking up a fishy smell on our beaches.<br \/>\nThis is the result of the brown and green debris washed up on the beach known as \u201cAlgae Blue\u201d, which when is washed up on the sand and dried by the sun, releases a fishy smell.<br \/>\nIt is a naturally occuring process and by this morning the smell was already much bett<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-240 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/umhlangauip.co.za\/wpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Algae-Blue-2.jpg\" alt=\"Algae Blue (2)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/>er.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-239\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/umhlangauip.co.za\/wpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Algae-Blue-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-239 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/umhlangauip.co.za\/wpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Algae-Blue-1.jpg\" alt=\"Algea Blue is the cause of the debris in the waves and on the puddles created by high sea tides.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Algea Blue is the cause of the debris in the waves and on the puddles created by high sea tides.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few days beach visitors were picking up a fishy smell on our beaches. 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