Recently, Coast Guard officials stated the impact of the Gulf Coast oil spill stretches across more than 150 miles.
If you were to travel across these miles, you may find birds, turtles, fish and crustaceans covered in oil. You may find dolphins and sharks dying along the shorelines. You may find beaches covered with so many globs of oil that they had to be shut down until further notice.
What you will not find is any end to the spill in sight. You won’t find a sure-fire way to clean up all the oil and animals on top of it. And you will certainly be hard pressed to find any form of salvation or recovery for the wetlands any time soon.
To see images of how devastating the oil spill has become, click here. Some of them may rather shock you, so be warned.
By Heidi Marshall