It wasn’t your average day at the beach unless maybe The Addams Family took a Spring Break trip there.
Earlier this week, the waters along the coast of Vilano Beach, Florida were inundated by tens of thousands of bristle worms. The water roiled with the squirming swimmers.
Actually, like many a frisky collegian heading to Florida for Spring Break, the worms arrived to perform their mating ritual. The reddish brown worms, which can grow as large as 20 inches, crawled out of their usual hiding places in the sand during the night and surprised early-rising fishermen. Nature never relents though. Soon after the sun rose, the bristle worms’ natural enemy, the mullet (the fish, not the haircut) arrived to feast upon the swarm.
The bristle worms usually make a spring appearance along the Florida coast, but not in the massive numbers that showed up this year. At least these worms don’t invade the human eye.
A few opportunistic Florida locals are considering starting a festival to capitalize upon the worms’ annual visit. It can’t be any weirder than having a Cursing Festival like the people in Nepal. Wait, maybe instead of the worms, they should have a Mullet festival to honor both a hungry fish and an awesome hair style.
The Daily Mail has video of the gross swarm.