who ya gonna trust?

BP who brings oil to your shores or your lyin' eyes that see the oil on the beaches?

DESTIN - It was a smelly sludge that looked like oil and made the holiday weekend a disappointment on one Destin beach.
BP says it was a seaweed called black algae.
But as Channel Three's Laura Hussey found out, some people aren't convinced.

Robert Herrin
"You could see nothing but pitch black water. The waves were almost just sludge like, just rolling in sludge it was so thick. And it was matting on the shoreline. I would say at least this thick in some places."

It washed in Friday behind the Sterling Sands Condominiums in Destin, a smelly black mat, hundreds of yards long and full of debris.

Robert
"Sunglasses, aluminum cans, also marine life was caught inside there and had died cause they couldn't escape."

The property manager called BP but says he got no response.

Friday, I contacted the local BP office and they sent someone out Saturday morning to have a look and do some testing. They say what washed up on the beach was something called black algae, no oil involved...

Who ya gonna trust, who ya gonna trust?