Red Tide

One morning we woke up and there were a bunch of dead fish and eels washed up on the beach. We asked around and people told us that it was because of the red tide. I looked up what a red tide was on the internet and found out that it occurred when there was an over growth of algae and plankton. They take all of the oxygen out of the water and so there is none for the fish and they therefore die. They don't really know what causes it. The water didn't really look red, but it was really foamy (I don't know if you can tell from that picture) and kind of orangish. We didn't swim in the ocean for a few days needless to say.