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Originally Posted by TownieRinker27
Hi all, I was anchored on the western edge of Ragged yesterday and in an effort to escape the oppressive heat, I decided to take a plunge. When I was choosing my "landing spot", I noticed a grey cloud floating just above bottom with an amorphous shape. It may have been attached to the bottom somehow, but since it looked repulsive, I avoided it. I should have taken a picture, but didn't. My question, maybe naive, but was is "rock snot" (didymo)?  |
• My trustworthy high-school-aged-neighbor interrupted his own "closing-up" to take the requested picture. (Thank you!)
• The OP's "amorphous, repulsive-algae" drifting over the bottom—with the appearance of green "cotton candy"—
is not the Gloeotrichia we see suspended at Lake Winnipesaukee's surface waters.
• When Winter Harbor was a real harbor—and not today's demolition-derby playground for
visiting over-sized boats—we saw
none of these two very troubling algae types! (Yes, and some here want to tax
kayaks!)
• This green, diaphanous, algae
fills most of the picture's lower left quadrant, with normal lake-gravel bottom in the upper right quadrant:
.