Seaweed season 2023 in Florida: Photos, aerials show brown blobs of Sargassum at our beaches (2024)

Mark Bellavance, of Blackstone, Massachusetts, walks through sargassum seaweed while using a metal detector along the shoreline at Jensen Beach Park on Thursday, May, 25, 2023, on Hutchinson Island. The beach is 4191 N.E. Ocean Blvd.

Sargassum seaweed is pushed ashore in mounds at Avalon State Park, 5400 State Road A1A in St. Lucie County on Wednesday, May 24, 2023.

Sargassum seaweed covers the shore north of South Beach Park at 1702 Ocean Drive, Vero Beach on Wednesday May 24, 2023 around 6 p.m.

Sargassum seaweed washing up at Pepper Park Beachside, 3302 North State Road A1A, Fort Pierce on Wednesday, May 24, 2023.

Sargassum seaweed has collected along the shoreline at Jensen Beach Park on Thursday, May, 25, 2023, on Hutchinson Island. The beach is 4191 N.E. Ocean Blvd.

Sargassum seaweed has collected along the shoreline at Jensen Beach Park on Thursday, May, 25, 2023, on Hutchinson Island. The beach is 4191 N.E. Ocean Blvd.

Mark Bellavance, of Blackstone, Massachusetts, walks through sargassum seaweed while using a metal detector along the shoreline at Jensen Beach Park on Thursday, May, 25, 2023, on Hutchinson Island. The beach is 4191 N.E. Ocean Blvd.

On Sunday, May 21, 2023, sargassum seaweed lined the beach and tumbled in the ocean near the Tides, a mile north of Pineda Causeway on SR A1A.

On Sunday, May 21, 2023, sargassum seaweed lined the beach and tumbled in the ocean near the Tides, a mile north of Pineda Causeway on SR A1A.

Bits of Sargassum seaweed are washing ashore around Avenida 16-18 on Tuesday, May 23, 2023.

Sargassum lines Fort Lauderdale Beach in this April 7 image by Seth Platt.

IN 2020 when all school activities were cancelled nationwide including graduations, Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High started a tradition of a beach walk in their cap and gowns. The novel event became a tradition and on Thursday afternoon, the day day before their official graduation, the Class of 2023 took a walk down the beach in their cap and gowns, the principal leading the way.

IN 2020 when all school activities were cancelled nationwide including graduations, Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High started a tradition of a beach walk in their cap and gowns. The novel event became a tradition and on Thursday afternoon, the day day before their official graduation, the Class of 2023 took a walk down the beach in their cap and gowns, the principal leading the way.

IN 2020 when all school activities were cancelled nationwide including graduations, Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High started a tradition of a beach walk in their cap and gowns. The novel event became a tradition and on Thursday afternoon, the day day before their official graduation, the Class of 2023 took a walk down the beach in their cap and gowns, the principal leading the way.

IN 2020 when all school activities were cancelled nationwide including graduations, Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High started a tradition of a beach walk in their cap and gowns. The novel event became a tradition and on Thursday afternoon, the day day before their official graduation, the Class of 2023 took a walk down the beach in their cap and gowns, the principal leading the way.

IN 2020 when all school activities were cancelled nationwide including graduations, Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High started a tradition of a beach walk in their cap and gowns. The novel event became a tradition and on Thursday afternoon, the day day before their official graduation, the Class of 2023 took a walk down the beach in their cap and gowns, the principal leading the way.

On Sunday, May 21, 2023, sargassum seaweed lined the beach and tumbled in the ocean near the Tides, a mile north of Pineda Causeway on SR A1A.

Bits of Sargassum seaweed are washing ashore around Avenida 16-18 on Tuesday, May 23, 2023.

Bits of Sargassum seaweed are washing ashore around Avenida 16-18 on Tuesday, May 23, 2023.

Giant blobs of Sargassum hug the shoreline next to the William O Lockhart Municipal Pier in Lake Worth Beach, Florida on June 1, 2023.

Sargassum accumulates on the beach at Phipps Ocean Park Tuesday May 30, 2023 in Palm Beach.

Sargassum accumulates on the beach at Phipps Ocean Park Tuesday May 30, 2023 in Palm Beach.

Sargassum accumulates on the beach near Root Trail Tuesday May 30, 2023 in Palm Beach.

Sargassum accumulates on the beach near Root Trail Tuesday May 30, 2023 in Palm Beach.

Sargassum accumulates on the beach near Root Trail Tuesday May 30, 2023 in Palm Beach.

Sargassum accumulates on the beach near Root Trail Tuesday May 30, 2023 in Palm Beach.

Sargassum blankets the beach Saturday, May 27, 2023 south of Midtown Beach in Palm Beach.