Over the weekend, a few beaches around Fort Lauderdale had to be closed down as “tar balls” washed ashore.
Beachgoers who were expecting to relax along the South Florida coast wound up stepping on “dark, greasy balls of oil,” according to the Sun Sentinel.
NBC Miami spoke to some people who were there that day, with one visitor referring to them as “weird, black globs” that some mistook for a sea creature. Lifeguards told the people that it had been connected to an oil spill in the middle of the ocean, though that hasn’t been confirmed…