Coffee spill: Thousands of @CafeBustelo coffee cans wash up on Florida beach https://t.co/kqAplUfwkC
— Florida Today (@Florida_Today) December 8, 2015
Chris Sybo stepped out of the Doubletree Hotel for a quick early morning walk along the beach when he spotted a coffee lover’s dream: hundreds of sealed, yellow cans of coffee dotting the sand and seaweed for at least a mile.
“It was just filled with it,” said Sybo, visiting the area from Pittsburgh to attend his daughter’s graduation at Florida Institute of Technology.
“I came out early this morning and saw it. I went back and told a worker and said you ought to see the beach. It’s like Christmas coffee,” he said as more than a dozen beachcombers for about a mile scooped up the sand-covered cans and stuffed them into bags.
The coffee — possibly from a missing load of containers that fell overboard from a barge over the weekend — washed up along the shore in Indialantic overnight, dotting the beaches sandwiching either side of the Doubletree Hotel, 1665 State Road A1A.