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An area of "red product and tar balls" about 5 yards wide and 1/4 mile long was just 3/4 mile off Okaloosa Island near the East Pass.  Hundreds of tar balls were reported early in the morning in the lower tidal zone by Norriego Point.

A five-mile stretch of Miramar Beach was scattered with pinhead- to quarter-sized tar balls around 4:30 p.m. Tar balls were also found at Top Sail Hill and Blue Mountain Beach.

In Santa Rosa County, a "tar patty string" and "black, molten high tide zone" were reported about 5 p.m. on Gulf Islands National Seashore. The beach was closed to cleanup crews by the National Park Service due to nesting birds.

More tar balls and an oiled foil drink pouch also hit Navarre Beach.