Brea Perry

And if you think about, you know, how much a parking lot, concrete in a parking lot heats up on a hot day, kind of similar thing.

So in general, we had temperatures here higher.

Where I am in Victoria, around 35 to 40 degrees.

But on those rocky coastlines, the temperatures were getting up to about 50 degrees Celsius.

And those organisms, obviously, they're attached to the rocks.

They couldn't move.

And so they just baked by the millions, possibly up to billions.

No, it was not delicious.

It was my colleague, intertidal ecologist Chris Harley at UBC was the one out there observing all of that and documenting it and taking photos and doing the estimates.

And he talks really vividly about the stench of all that dying stuff.

Meat, basically, you know, I think we eat mussels, but imagine it all.

Imagine leaving a billion mussels out on the coastline baking and rotting in the sun.

It was a pretty overwhelming smell from what I gather.

Not delicious.

Sure, sure.

It is super weird, right?

In the case of sea lettuce, which is really, you know, most people have probably not heard of sea lettuce.

It's definitely not.

It's kind of a, it's like a green wet mop.

along our coastline here, right?