This occurs on Pensacola beach as well, thought the light is greenish.
Spectacular.
Very nice.
I remember one summer in Maine, in a boat at night in Frenchman’s Bay, near Bar Harbor. We saw a similar phenomenon. When the boat disturbed the water, it glowed a faint blue.
I was brown bear hunting on Afognak Island in Alaska during the springtime. We had rented a floating cabin that was anchored in a slough. One evening after my 4th or 5th can of barley pop I went outside to relieve myself over the side. As my borrowed beer hit the water it started to sparkle. At first I thought it might have been from all those drugs I took in college but then I realized it was bioluminescence from plankton in the water. That was so cool I had to go back in and rehydrate myself so I could watch it again!
I LOVE Big Sur!
Phosphorescent Bay in Puerto Rico. 1980. We were out in a small boat it was like being in a Disney movie. Light dripping off your oars and when anything skimmed the surface trails of light.
My dad was in the merchant service in the ‘20s and ‘30s. One night in the Indian Ocean he was on deck and saw what looked like spokes of a giant wheel afar off slowly rotating, sweeping across the ship. He called out another deck officer and they agreed it was plankton reacting to the sound of the ship’s engines. Never saw anything like that again.
Had that happened today, it would be a segment of “Ancient Aliens”.
Kewl.
