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Seaweed is back
These images are not taken Friday July 30 correct? I checked Google Earth and these images are from May 30 this year.It appears that the best way to deal with the Sargazo is by applying a line that captures it offshore and prevents it reaches the beach.
Here is one example I took from the satelite image of Cap Cana in Google Earth. The Sargazo is clearly visible as a dark spot in the sea.
This other example of Punta Cana shows that it works, but they probably didn't got rid of the Sargazo that reached the beach before the line was placed.
The line plus cleaning the beach every morning could help reduce substantially the effects of the Sargazo.
Disagree completely. You are in complete denial about the reality of DR. And compare Santo Domingo with LA? Words are hard to come by after reading your words. The tourist dollar, greedy overzealous invest bankers and hoteliers are ruining the one area at the moment PC and because raineri and hazoury are making hand over fist $ they do not care to keep up with infrastructure just keep overbuilding. And you are citing the natural beauty of our country while actually now the tourist crowds are only in Bavaro which is already being ruined with garbage. Have you recently been out to Juanillo which was such a gorgeous beach..now being overbuilt in Cap Cana with more and more buildings and barely recognizable. You mention all the great things that are available to do here but fail to mention how difficult it is to do anything because there is hardly money that seems to go to infrastructure in the rest of the country. This is a beautiful country with no real sounding vision for the future.
So maybe I will be reprimanded by disagreeing with You.
I stayed in one of beachfront buildings that you can see on the first photo all July, and I can confirm that it only got worse last week of July.
Also you may notice the color of the water in the canal (left bottom corner of the first photo), it's where all the rotten seaweeds go, you can feel the bad smell from that canal from a mile away.
Regarding Cap Cana.... this is the color of the water in canals now... imagine how it smells. (this is the place from the satellite image posted by NAL)
And this is what you see along the beach and it smells that bad that you don't want to come close to it (yes they clean it every day but more seaweed come faster than they can clean it all.. and yes, that line mentioned in some posts above is not helping).
And this is what you see along the beach and it smells that bad that you don't want to come close to it (yes they clean it every day but more seaweed come faster than they can clean it all.. and yes, that line mentioned in some posts above is not helping).
First, why even bring up SD in a discussion about seaweed. There is not even a beach there... "The capital is a huge city, almost the same size as Los Angeles, with a world of things to do, great nightlife (normally in any case), good shopping, parks, museums, historic sites, bars, restaurants, the list goes on. " Well you forgot to mention the great traffic situation...
It is by far the worst big city I ever been to and only go there when I need to. But if you want a big city....Barcelona, Valencia, etc etc.. That said I like Abinader... some focus on the North Coast, after 16 years of just focusing on the Capital and Punta Cana. Seaweed is the KarmaNadie 21 . I regret that I must totally agree with you on your overall point of view. I live in la Romana but nearly every week I visit other places in the eastern peninsular to visit friends or to shop or to play golf . The entire area from Macao in the north all the way down to the Cap Cana development and west to Veron is a planning disaster and as ugly an area as you could find in the DR . But most of the millions of tourists see nothing of the developments as they land and are whisked away to one of the many AI hotels with absolutely no need nor desire to leave the boundaries of their hotel. And when they do leave they destroy areas like around Macao . I do not think you can place much blame on Raineri who is the Chairman of the Grupo Punta Cana which owns and manages the airport that is used by guests at all the hotels which have about 4000 to 5000 bedrooms,maybe more. Actually the area around the Punta Cana Resort and the Cap Cana Resort is reasonably well laid out and cared for . I am sorry about the beaches inside the Cap Cana resort which is only the responsibility of the resort. However ,driving along the autopista extension from the round about all the way north is dreadful and that includes all the areas between the ocean and the autopista.
I do not know if you can lay the blame with the Altagracia province administration or with the Government but no one has been willing to get in the way of the money that comes with this development and of course there are massive opportunities for corruption as building regulations are overlooked for dollars . Buildings exceed the maximum height and beaches are closed off to the Dominican people.
Personally I would be very happy if somehow all the tourist development could cease west of Otra Banda but even that is being too optimistic as Bayahibe has already become a smaller version of Bavaro .So maybe if all these poorly planned tourist developments could be contained in the Alta Gracia province,then the beauty of the rest of the country could be preserved with proper planning
I do not know if you can lay the blame with the Altagracia province administration or with the Government but no one has been willing to get in the way of the money that comes with this development and of course there are massive opportunities for corruption as building regulations are overlooked for dollars . Buildings exceed the maximum height and beaches are closed off to the Dominican people.
Personally I would be very happy if somehow all the tourist development could cease west of Otra Banda but even that is being too optimistic as Bayahibe has already become a smaller version of Bavaro .So maybe if all these poorly planned tourist developments could be contained in the Alta Gracia province,then the beauty of the rest of the country could be preserved with proper planning
Actually that's good, less Dominicans on the beach = less trash and noise on the beach. I wish there was some tourist areas where Dominicans are not allowed at all. I remember Varadero 20 years ago, when Cubans were not allowed on the beaches there, it was paradise.
Mods. Is this post about seaweed, or about over-development and planning issues on the East Coast? Or just a general thread where anyone who doesn't like DR can rant and rant and shout down anyone else who does?
May I suggest that all posts which are not related to seaweed on this thread are deleted to try to get people to stay on track?
May I suggest that all posts which are not related to seaweed on this thread are deleted to try to get people to stay on track?
About as racist as one could get with-in the rules of TOS. BTW, it is their beach, remember? Only IMO, of course I could be wrong.
Yes, there are many ways to access beaches in Bavaro. A good one is to go to Capt. Cooks, eat fresh fish right on the beach. And close to the restaurant you can charter a fishing boat. And you will catch fish with these guys. And nice ones. They go way out.
I am so glad that so glad that some of the beaches still are accessible to those not staying in the hotels ..So many hotels used to have security guards that scare away people who were not guests..but now I guess the seaweed does that job.
My guess is that you have never been to Cairo, Mumbai, Lagos...First, why even bring up SD in a discussion about seaweed. There is not even a beach there... "The capital is a huge city, almost the same size as Los Angeles, with a world of things to do, great nightlife (normally in any case), good shopping, parks, museums, historic sites, bars, restaurants, the list goes on. " Well you forgot to mention the great traffic situation...
Not sure about the "Seaweed is the karma" comment as many areas/countries are also dealing with this issue. The comment "Actually that's good, less Dominicans on the beach = less trash and noise on the beach." truly has to be one of the most ignorant/rude comments I have come across on DR1. Sorry mods but had to say it. There has been a lot information/news about the seaweed situation in Punta Cana so most travelers are aware of the situation before they travel. Sure they are disappointed but most were aware of it before they went.
I walk the beach everyday. Thirty minutes west and 30minutes back. Yep, there is seaweed . In certain parts of the beach it looks similar to the pictures above. Obviously solution...walk around it! Is the soft sand more difficult to walk in? Boo, hoo. Stop whining and drink more wine. Thank the beach gods that we are around and walking ,on a beach in paradise.Smell? Love it. It's the real deal.