<p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 20px;">?Punta Cana, one of the favorite vacation destinations, welcomes her visitors with bright blue sky, white soft sand, ever floating clouds, and soothing rocking tides. This eye-catching postcard image is so familiar to us, not leaving more impression than that from other popular tropical destinations. What surprises and impresses us more, on the other hand, is its unwavering spread of coastal seaweed (sargassum) and seemly never ending human efforts in removing them from the scenery.</span></p> <p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 20px;">?The relentless and persistence presence of seaweed, an unignorable companion for a beautiful sunrise walk on the beach, an unignorable companion for a peaceful yoga practice by the sea…creates such a contrast in our visual enjoyment…blue sea, brown seaweed; a roaring seaweed collecting truck and sound sleeping vacationers on the beach…nature force and human effort competes constantly since the beginning of the universe…</span></p> <p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 20px;">?Only a few days at the place, I almost start to enjoy the beauty of their presence, the scale and speed of their reappearance every morning, the rhythmic dance of their advance synchronizing with the tides…</span></p> <p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">?I know this is my imagination. I felt that they are trying to conjure up an unifying voice, silent yet forceful at the same time. </span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size: 20px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">What do you think they are trying to say? </span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p>