Florida – The Beaches of Fort Myers & Sanibel – LEE COUNTY HISTORY AND CULTURE – travel destination – Video

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162 Lee Ave, Beaches, Toronto, Presented by Kendra Connelly, Sotheby’s International Realty Canada – Video

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Beaches Negril Resort in Jamaica is perfect for family holidays

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By Emma Creamer

PUBLISHED: 12:42 EST, 5 March 2014 | UPDATED: 13:30 EST, 5 March 2014

My seven-year-old daughter bursts into tears and flings herself on to her immaculate white bed. I dont want to go home! she sobs as I zip up our cases.

Weve just come to the end of a week-long, all-inclusive stay at the Beaches Negril Resort in Jamaica, and according to Lily-Rose its been: The best week of my life.

Which is why she doesnt fancy returning to rainy London.

Paradise found: Beaches resort is set in 20 acres of wooded grounds on Negril's famous seven-mile beach

It feels good to know that shes had such a fantastic experience.

Having been a single parent for more than six years I know that holidays can be tricky when youre not in a conventional family set up.

You worry that youll be desperately craving adult company after a day, or that your child will get bored with no dad to throw them around the swimming pool.

I even worry about whether it will look odd just me and my little girl dining out in the evening - will people feel sorry for me?

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DNA Tests Offer Quicker Results for Beach Bacteria

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Just in time for swimsuit season, federal researchers are touting a faster, more accurate water-quality test to keep beaches open and people healthy. But its expensive

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Just in time for swimsuit season, federal researchers are touting a faster, more accurate water-quality test to keep beaches open and people healthy.

But its expensive, and most of the nations cash-strapped cities and counties can afford it.

Local officials traditionally check for bacteria in ocean and lake water with tests that take about 24 hours to complete. Now the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is recommending testing at the molecular level tagging DNA and counting bacteria which provides results within hours.

Water quality can change significantly in 24 hours. This way were identifying threats to human health almost immediately,said Meredith Nevers, a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who is studying theEPAs new DNA test.

An estimated 3.5 million people get sick every year after a trip to the beach because of E. coli or other pathogens from sewage overflows, spills and polluted runoff, according to the EPA. Exposure can cause gastrointestinal illness, skin rashes and infections.

About 43 percent of beaches along the East and West coasts and the Great Lakes had at least one water-quality advisory in 2011, according to EPA data.

Counties and cities test beaches routinely often weekly but depending on the location and season. Beaches also are tested after spills to determine when they can be reopened.

Slow results Traditional tests involve waiting 24 hours to allow E. coli, coliform or enterococci to grow in a water sample, then counting the colonies. That means decisions to close down beaches are based on samples collected the day before.

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Red tide invades EL beaches

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EAST London beaches were closed to bathers yesterday by Buffalo City Metro marine services officials after a red tide algal bloom was seen in city waters.

Marine services assistant programme manager Siani Tinley yesterday said the closure was a precautionary measure to allow officials time to test the bloom that was blown on shore by days of north-easterly winds.

COASTAL ISSUES: Eric Ngwani says hell be fishing until somebody warns him not to. This is after the red tide flowed into East London yesterday Picture: MARK ANDREWS

She also warned surfers to stay out of the water until the tests had been conducted.

Red tide is the common name used for a colony of red-brown micro-organisms which bloom at certain times of the year.

Although the red tide is believed to be the same non-toxic species that has been off the coast from False Bay to the outskirts of East London for several months, Tinley said it would be best to conduct tests before giving local beaches the all-clear.

Tinley said it was difficult to determine whether it was the same species of red tide found off the rest of the coast without doing tests.

It could be the same as the Port Elizabeth red tide which is relatively harmless.

However, we decided to close the beaches as a precautionary measure, she said.

Tinley said cold water from north east winds resulted in an upwelling of nutrients, and this encouraged the algal bloom.

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