And while Placencia villagers are getting ready to fight for their precious "pint" - San Pedro residents can't even see theirs right now.
The island town's seafront has been smothered by a thick blanket of sargassum - extending in some cases over a hundred feet from the shore.
It's terribly unsightly and a major turn off for townspeople and tourists - but it's going to get even worse when it starts to rot in a week's time.
That's why the Town Council says it will be hiring temporary employees to help clean up the mess. A brief release says they may be hired full time if they excel at the task of cleaning up the spongy mess.
But when we flew over the island today we saw large mats of sargassum headed past the reef for the town, meaning it's only going to get worse.
Caye Caulker is facing the same scale of sargassum inundation and to a lesser extent, so is Placencia.
Observers note that the sargassum bloom is especially bad this year, and seems to be coming in early.
The latest sargassum forecast from the MET office says that "satellite imagery continues to show a high concentration of sargassum over the area and therefore it is expected that more mats will drift ashore during the coming days." It projects major impact for San Pedro Town, Caye Caullker, Hopkins and Placencia with a continued high probability of more sargassum coming ashore.
