Bioluminescent Phosphorescence
 

We were based out of San Carlos on a July visit to the Cortez. The old
Miramar hotel had a large thatch covered palapa on Bacochibampo beach
just out of Guaymas that featured good drinks and mariachi music 'til
the wee hours of the morning. We dinked over to Bacochibampo in the late
afternoon for dinner, drinks, and a few hours of good conversation after
a busy day of diving.

Time seemed to slip by. It was about 10 PM when, drawn by the sound of
the surf gently lapping on shore, I stepped off the palapa's large
concrete floor to walk that sand beach on this moonless night. As I
approached the shore with the sound of mariachi music playing in the
distance, the scene seemed magical. The bioluminescence of those small
waves breaking on shore was surrealistic and illuminated the area with a
faint green glow. I must have walked two miles on the beach that
evening. I'd seen this glow before and since, but never with so much
intensity.

Returning the 10 miles to San Carlos in the evening was also an
unforgettable experience. Senses were raised as we skimmed across the
clear warm waters of the bay. Forward, the surface was not visible, you
saw stars, dim lights from the distant shore, and a three dimensional
sea with bioluminescent waters highlighting schools of fish and a few
monsters at depths up to fifty feet. Astern, the wake offered a bright
glow and reassurance that you were not indeed floating *in* the sea.

--
Skipper

Bioluminescent Phosphorescence
 

Oh, yeah, We got that up here in Puget Sound and around the San Juans
big time. Sometimes, at night,it takes your mind off deadheads and
wooden submarines, for a few minutes....
JR

Skipper wrote:
We were based out of San Carlos on a July visit to the Cortez. The old
Miramar hotel had a large thatch covered palapa on Bacochibampo beach
just out of Guaymas that featured good drinks and mariachi music 'til
the wee hours of the morning. We dinked over to Bacochibampo in the late
afternoon for dinner, drinks, and a few hours of good conversation after
a busy day of diving.

Time seemed to slip by. It was about 10 PM when, drawn by the sound of
the surf gently lapping on shore, I stepped off the palapa's large
concrete floor to walk that sand beach on this moonless night. As I
approached the shore with the sound of mariachi music playing in the
distance, the scene seemed magical. The bioluminescence of those small
waves breaking on shore was surrealistic and illuminated the area with a
faint green glow. I must have walked two miles on the beach that
evening. I'd seen this glow before and since, but never with so much
intensity.

Returning the 10 miles to San Carlos in the evening was also an
unforgettable experience. Senses were raised as we skimmed across the
clear warm waters of the bay. Forward, the surface was not visible, you
saw stars, dim lights from the distant shore, and a three dimensional
sea with bioluminescent waters highlighting schools of fish and a few
monsters at depths up to fifty feet. Astern, the wake offered a bright
glow and reassurance that you were not indeed floating *in* the sea.

--
Skipper


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Bioluminescent Phosphorescence
 

A few yrs ago in summer when we were camping at St. Joseph Peninsula St
PArk here in N. FL. I threw an oyster shell into the bay and thought I
musta gotten some bad shrimp and was hallucinating. Rays of light shot
out from the splash. Hands dipped in the water glowed and when smeared
on ourselves left us glowing. Footsteps left glowing imprints on the
sand. Truly bizarre. We see some of the bio light stuff most summers
but never again like that.

Bioluminescent Phosphorescence
 

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A few yrs ago in summer when we were camping at St. Joseph Peninsula St
PArk here in N. FL. I threw an oyster shell into the bay and thought I
musta gotten some bad shrimp and was hallucinating. Rays of light shot
out from the splash. Hands dipped in the water glowed and when smeared
on ourselves left us glowing. Footsteps left glowing imprints on the
sand. Truly bizarre. We see some of the bio light stuff most summers
but never again like that.


If I run a net through the water in my canal at certain times of the year,
we get the same glow in the water. I think it's jellyfish.

Bioluminescent Phosphorescence
 

The first time I went sailing at night, and used the head, I could not
believe how the Phosphorescence would light up the toilet when flushed.
Sort of a mini fireworks show.



"JR North" wrote in message
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Oh, yeah, We got that up here in Puget Sound and around the San Juans big
time. Sometimes, at night,it takes your mind off deadheads and wooden
submarines, for a few minutes....
JR

Skipper wrote:
We were based out of San Carlos on a July visit to the Cortez. The old
Miramar hotel had a large thatch covered palapa on Bacochibampo beach
just out of Guaymas that featured good drinks and mariachi music 'til
the wee hours of the morning. We dinked over to Bacochibampo in the late
afternoon for dinner, drinks, and a few hours of good conversation after
a busy day of diving.
Time seemed to slip by. It was about 10 PM when, drawn by the sound of
the surf gently lapping on shore, I stepped off the palapa's large
concrete floor to walk that sand beach on this moonless night. As I
approached the shore with the sound of mariachi music playing in the
distance, the scene seemed magical. The bioluminescence of those small
waves breaking on shore was surrealistic and illuminated the area with a
faint green glow. I must have walked two miles on the beach that
evening. I'd seen this glow before and since, but never with so much
intensity.
Returning the 10 miles to San Carlos in the evening was also an
unforgettable experience. Senses were raised as we skimmed across the
clear warm waters of the bay. Forward, the surface was not visible, you
saw stars, dim lights from the distant shore, and a three dimensional
sea with bioluminescent waters highlighting schools of fish and a few
monsters at depths up to fifty feet. Astern, the wake offered a bright
glow and reassurance that you were not indeed floating *in* the sea. --
Skipper


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Bioluminescent Phosphorescence
 

Sir Rodney Smithers wrote:

The first time I went sailing at night, and used the head, I could not
believe how the Phosphorescence would light up the toilet when flushed.
Sort of a mini fireworks show.

Was that phosphorescence or bileluminescence?

--
Skipper

Bioluminescent Phosphorescence
 

Skipper,
I had no idea there was a difference, I had to look it up on the web. It
appears that it was Bioluminescence, because it was the agitation from
flushing the toilet that was causing the glow. See definition below.

Bioluminescence is a subset of chemiluminescence, where the light-producing
chemical reaction occurs inside an organism

"Skipper" wrote in message
...
Sir Rodney Smithers wrote:

The first time I went sailing at night, and used the head, I could not
believe how the Phosphorescence would light up the toilet when flushed.
Sort of a mini fireworks show.

Was that phosphorescence or bileluminescence?

--
Skipper

Bioluminescent Phosphorescence
 

"Sir Rodney Smithers" Ask me about my knighthood. wrote in message
...
Skipper,
I had no idea there was a difference, I had to look it up on the
web.......

WOOOOOOOOSH

Bioluminescent Phosphorescence
 

Damn, as that flew over my head, it was so close and fast, I got a crew
cut.

and I just thought it was a typo. Silly me.


"Sammy" wrote in message
news:kskff.27905$9T4.10721@trnddc04...

"Sir Rodney Smithers" Ask me about my knighthood. wrote in message
...
Skipper,
I had no idea there was a difference, I had to look it up on the
web.......

WOOOOOOOOSH

Bioluminescent Phosphorescence
 

NOYB wrote:

If I run a net through the water in my canal at certain times of the year,
we get the same glow in the water. I think it's jellyfish.

YOUR canal?