Local authorities are still waiting to hear if they are from the Deepwater Horizon or another oil leak. Let’s hope that it is only from a fishing boat that recently sank and not Deepwater.

Tests are out on more than a dozen tar balls that have been found in a 2- to 3-mile stretch of Cocoa Beach during the past two days, according to Brevard County authorities.

Lifeguards said some beachgoers collected the tar balls in buckets. One woman said she found one that was as big as a roof shingle.

The tar balls have washed ashore at Lori Wilson Park, and also along the shore from 6th Street southward to the Cocoa Beach Pier.