Amazing photos of bioluminescent phytoplankton glowing blue in the sea in Big Sur, California
People living along the California coast are being treated to a living light show as tiny glowing phytoplankton light up the waves at Big Sur.
People living along the California coast have been treated to a living light show as tiny glowing phytoplankton lit up the waves at Big Sur. Photographers George Krieger and Brian Mack captured the microscopic bioluminescent organisms between Monday 5 and Thursday 8 February 2018.
On his Facebook page, Krieger posted a time-lapse of the glowing waves lighting up the night along the coast in Big Sur.
A little time lapse of some new images of the bioluminescent bloom I shot again last night#BigSur #BioBloom #bioluminecent #Timelapse #Nature
Posted by George Krieger on Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Remarkably, Krieger also managed to capture the final burn of the second stage of the SpaceX rocket that had been launched 90 minutes earlier from Florida.
This has been reported as the Mars interplanetary injection burn by news media and some even better informed folks...
Posted by George Krieger on Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Steve Haddock, a bioluminescence specialist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, told CNN affiliate KSBW that reports of glowing waves down the California coast have spiked since early January, probably because of a combination of high nutrient rates and calm conditions. He said once the wind picks up, the bloom will be dispersed. So locals and tourists should get down there soon to experience nature's marine light show.
