Although like most people I’m not all that thrilled about the damage caused by hurricanes and tropical storms when they landfall, I’m guessing that unlike most folks I eagerly await the arrival of one of the by-products of these storms. Southeasterly winds (remember, winds are named for the direction they are coming from, not for where they’re going) carry floating debris from way out in the middle of the Atlantic across the ocean and onto the shores of the Eastern seaboard. I spent most of last week picking through the mats of algae drifting towards the coast, especially sargassum weed, looking for stranded pelagic creatures clinging to the flotsam.