BP workers clean tar balls, sea slugs off Walton's beaches

WALTON COUNTY -- After a beachgoer reported concerns about "oil covered entities" at the beach access in the Beach Highlands Neighborhood Monday afternoon, a deputy with the Walton County Sheriff's Office Beach Unit went to inspect that area.

"They look like they could be something as simple as sea slugs or could be baby crabs or even baby turtles," the anonymous "very concerned citizen" wrote in a 2 p.m. email. "They wriggle and have eyes, those that are still moving."

A deputy with the Walton County Beach Unit went to that beach and reported back that the creatures were sea slugs and were being picked up along with tar balls by the BP cleaning crews. The slugs were not oil-covered, according to the deputy, just "slimy slugs like the ones on land."