We have had these blooms for about a week now. So far nobody has shown any symptoms of them being toxic. Little is known about the percent of blooms that are toxic (up to 25% quoted in literature), and also why a toxic population is produced. A complicating factor is that part of a bloom can be toxic and another part nontoxic within the same lake. It has been suggested that toxic strains may develop only under a particular set of environmental conditions, or that toxin production may be associated with plasmid-mediated gene transfer.
It looks like the H&S Council Nazis were out in force last week, as they've also closed off the main rigging area "for regeneration"... It's a bloody grassy patch of nothingness next to a beach.... what the hell do they think will grow there?
There's a tiny bit of Blue Green in the water, but certainly nothing to be worried about! More of an issue for kids playing in the mud.
I'm more concerned that there were a heap of kites still rigging up on the boxed off area... unsure what the do-gooders would make of that.
You get these signs most years around this time... Never heard of anyone having a drama yet.
About the rigging area - I'm pretty sure the short grass area right next to the sand is ok - it's just the thicker grass around the path and tree line that's blocked off.
The council have kindly left us a 20m x 5m section to set up with at high tide...
lol nah - I didn't care that they were there anyway!
