Watch: Sea foam jiggles into Vancouver Island forest like something from another planet

[Carla_Sinclair]

Originally published at: Watch: Sea foam jiggles into Vancouver Island forest like something from another planet - Boing Boing sea foam takes over

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[SmilingDemon]

[MagicFox]

The Blob (1958) - Opening Titles and Theme Song

[Melizmatic]

[euansmith]

The Matmoss?

Barbarella Meets the Matmos

[RickMycroft]

Micro-level strandbeests?

Animaris Rex | The Wind-Powered Sculpture by Theo Jansen

[Otherbrother]

@Carla_Sinclair

But, although it may have looked like a winter wonderland, the fluffy lather — usually not harmful —could be toxic “if it includes contaminants or if an algae bloom is in progress,” according to the Vancouver Sun.

So, along with a “an extreme wave hazard advisory,” due to 32-footers, park officials were also “not encouraging people to play” in in the waves’ aftermath, aka the sea foam.

When it gets deep enough it’s not just the potential toxins that you have to worry about. You really don’t want to get buried in the stuff.

Five experienced surfers die as ‘avalanche’ of sea foam strikes Dutch coast

(I’m guessing that the tragedy in that news story was the inspiration for a similar event in the Neal Stephenson book Termination Shock.)

[Ryan_Smith]

I spent christmas on Vancouver Island. It was my first time there and I spent a lot of it checking out parks and stuff. I guess I was on the wrong side of the island because I didn’t get to see this.

[BigBoppa]

Quick! Someone throw some pineapple chunks into that Hawaiian salad monster.

[blackeye]

A friend worth wearing seafoam for…

Mastercard (1999) Television Commercial - Wedding

[werdnagreb]

Pacific Rim National Park is one of my favourite places.

[BakaNeko]

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