One section of Gulf of Mexico shore just west of the main Pensacola Beach area in NW Florida, USA, on 24 June 2010.

Most of the larger chucks of crude oil *product* have been picked up, but the sand-oil-water mess may never be gone. The sandy beach may never be white....

[Dogs leave poo on the ground; British Petro. leaves Brit-Poo on the beaches.]