. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. TOP: Sea heart sea beans BOTTOM: Sea Purse sea beans ball, that grows in threesomes in a knobby capsule. Sea coconuts, sometimes still in their peculiar-looking pods, and other sea beans float a little higher than the seaweed. "A strong southwest wind in the summer can bring in a treasure trove," he says. "If you look above the weed line, you'll find ; While sea beans often ride in on a strong wind or a storm tide, offshore conditions can bring them on a calm day as well. Some Flor
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. TOP: Sea heart sea beans BOTTOM: Sea Purse sea beans ball, that grows in threesomes in a knobby capsule. Sea coconuts, sometimes still in their peculiar-looking pods, and other sea beans float a little higher than the seaweed. "A strong southwest wind in the summer can bring in a treasure trove," he says. "If you look above the weed line, you'll find ; While sea beans often ride in on a strong wind or a storm tide, offshore conditions can bring them on a calm day as well. Some Floridians consider fall sea bean season — some plants shed their seeds then, and hurricanes stir up the waters. Because they can drift for months, however, sea beans can appear year-round. LOOKOUT FOR SEA BEANS North Carolina's northernmost and southernmost beaches both sometimes have sea beans, according to the state aquariums at Roanoke Island and Fort Fisher. By most accounts, though, the currents are kindest to collectors around Cape Lookout. The Gulf Stream comes closest to our coast there, and its dynamics make surrounding beaches the destination for tropical tidbits. "The stream is really a strongly meandering set of flows, with some meanders forming eddies. TOP: Sea bean pod and seeds. BOTTOM: Golf Ball sea beans. that spin away from the main axis of flow," says Larry Cahoon, a North Carolina Sea Grant researcher specializing in biological oceanography at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. "The force of the stream also creates counterclockwise-moving flows in the coastal bays, such as Onslow Bay, the shelf waters between Capes Lookout and Fear," Cahoon says. "The Gulf Stream meanders that get entrained in the counterclockwise flows in shelf waters carry tropical water and flotsam inshore at Cape Lookout, which is why we see lots of tropical stuff in that ; Near Hatteras, the Gulf Stream veers away from the coast, and confli
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