PLETTENBERG BAY NEWS - Over 100 Plett residents, responding to a call on social media, rallied to save seahorses that washed up en masse on Lookout Beach yesterday, Wednesday 27 September.
The major operation, Save the Seahorse, saw the volunteers turning up with their buckets to collect the sea horses for rehabilitation back into the Keurbooms Estuary.
The phenomenon occurred when the Keurbooms and Bitou rivers, swelled by recent heavy rains, gushed into the sea at high tide (mid-morning) causing sea foam and grass, that contained the sea horses, to wash up onto the beach.
Volunteers had been asked to take the rescued sea horses to the lifeguard tower on Lookout Beach.
After collecting what sea horses they could find, the volunteers took them to CapeNature officials who were on the scene to record and count the numbers and manage the release properly.
In only one hour, more than 150 rescued sea horses and one pipefish were taken in a bucket to be relocated into the lagoon.
Over 100 volunteers combed the beach to rescue the sea horses that had washed up together with the foam and sea grass.
Over 150 sea horses were rescued and released back into the Keurbooms Estuary.
Tiny and vulnerable – a rescued sea horse.
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