Talk:Indian River (Florida)

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Indian River categorized as a river

I just noticed that Indian River is in the Rivers of Florida category. I think that is a problem, as Indian River is not really a river, but a lagoon. ~~I'll also post something over in Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers.~~ -- Dalbury^(Talk) 17:52, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Smell

The sentence about the smell being caused by the Red Tide drifting algaee or whatever. That link is dead, and I've read several other news articles (and this is something I've always believed) but it's not caused by red tide specifically. It's caused by the still water in many areas, and the rotting sea life. There's algae, sea grass, whatever, washed up all over the shore rotting. Walk out to a really long dock, the shoreline all you can smell is that awful rotten smell, but as soon as you walk out 30ft past the washed up sea weed and sea grass, the smell dissipates. 97.102.111.116 (talk) 23:07, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Whatever can be justified with a WP:RELY footnote. Observatins, per se, don't count but you can try to find a ref that suits you! :) Student7 (talk) 14:05, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I found an archived copy of the cited article using the Internet Archive WayBack Machine at https://archive.org/web/. Our WP article did not say "red tide", but rather "red drift algae", and the link was to Gracilaria, a type of red algae. I've edited the sentence to avoid "red drift algae", as it is not listed in the WP article as a common name for Gracilaria. - Donald Albury 15:48, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]