and he's still such a presence there—he lives in and owns a string of businesses in the immediate area—that locals call it "Malone Land." In aninterview with Closeup 360, Malone said of moving back home after retiring from the NBA in 2004: "It's just one of these places...
The walls of seaweed first started washing over the white-sand beaches of Tulum, Mexico, in 2015. They came from deep in the Atlantic and across the Caribbean, darkening the neon-blue water. Some of the seaweed was puke brown, while the rest was dark red, and in the summer it was so...