BP OIL spill pix: blobs, globs and boom

June 15, 2010

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Photos from June 4-5 from Yahoo photos and Newstimes “How the spill affects wildlife“. Not sure why their links expire.

Queen Bess Island (pelican rookery) at the mouth of Barataria Bay, Plaquemines Parish, LA. MAP. Parish coastal zone director PJ Hahn lifts boot out of beached oil-dispersant. Note how his other boot is fully immersed.

(AP/Gerald Herbert)

Cleanup worker picks up globs of oil in absorbent snare.

(AP/Gerald Herbert)

Cat Island in Barataria Bay clumped with blobs of oil-dispersant mix trapped by boom.

Charlie Riedel/AP

Boom coated in oil caught in the rocks at Grand Isle, LA

Charlie Riedel/AP

Beachgoer on Grande Isle

Charlie Riedel/AP

Oil smearing the beach at Grande Isle

Charlie Riedel/AP

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