The summer is often thought of as sun, sand, and turquoise water in South Florida, but one tourist’s recent visit to Miami Beach was quite different. A video showing the tourist’s dismay at the current condition of the shore is going viral, as the beach is not being highlighted for the image that people usually portray of their coastal paradise.
Miami Beach is getting buried in sargassum seaweed.Massive brown piles washing up along the shore, creating that signature rotten-egg smell and turning paradise into a cleanup zone. 2026 is shaping up to be one of the worst years yet. pic.twitter.com/nXvHh5vkvW
— TaraBull (@TaraBull) June 10, 2026
The clip, shared on X, displays a clearly frustrated visitor near Miami Beach, Florida. He is moving his phone camera across the shoreline to show an area of sand and water almost completely covered by brown, bulky sargassum seaweed. High-rise buildings line the distance along with several beach-goers picking their way through piles.
“So we came all the way to Miami, Florida, to go on vacation, and we get here to spend time in the water, just relax, and this is what we’re met with,” the man says in the video…