Orewa Beach on north Auckland’s Hibiscus Coast is covered with a strange kelp that resembles ginger hair. An unfamiliar seaweed covering a large area of a popular walking beach has left beach-goers feeling disgusted. The seaweed, which looked like shaggy clumps of ginger hair, covered Orewa Beach in north Auckland on Monday afternoon. Brad Flahive/Stuff A hair-like seaweed has covered a large area of Orewa Beach, north Auckland. A local woman said she had walked the beach for 40 years and never seen anything like it.

Source: Stuff May 20, 2019 07:07 UTC