# Red tide in my kayak?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-tide-in-my-kayak/126946>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 4, 2002, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-tide-in-my-kayak/126946 "2002-09-04T13:30:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-tide-in-my-kayak/126946/21 "2002-09-06T16:00:24Z")

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We had a lecture on algae at the Monterey Bay Aquarium by some lady with 17 years experience talking about algae.

She enjoyed it so much that she actually gave her son the name of “Al G.” yep.

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**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-tide-in-my-kayak/126946/22 "2002-09-06T17:19:25Z")

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Just wait until we get to the Teva sandal and neoprene bootie and wetsuit bacteria questions.

Paddling is a joyous but smelly sport.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-tide-in-my-kayak/126946/23 "2002-09-06T17:27:12Z")

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Got my Tevas on right now. The kayak is on top of the Jeep (take _that_, you SUV bashers! 😉 ). The seat and PFD are about to come out of the closet. Too late to go in to work, so… 😃

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-tide-in-my-kayak/126946/24 "2002-09-06T22:49:07Z")

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Okay, the mystery is officially solved.

Immediately after dragging the kayak up to the seawall, I opened the centre hatch. The water was tinged with red. Since there is no way for an algae bloom to have occurred in just two hours, I concluded that the red came from the centre hatch bag. There is still no discolouration on the nylon bag.

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