ok people so
Phosphorescence..
last night on warriewood Beach i saw it, probably been a few years since i last
we used to see it all the time when we came back late from the boat and it was dark and the wooden oars would pick up blue light as they splashed into the water.
beautiful and rare and special
Marine phosphorescence...Bioluminescence is exhibited by a wide variety of oceanic organisms, from bacteria to large squids and fish. The light is emitted when a flavin pigment, luciferin, is oxidized in the presence of luciferase, an enzyme also produced by the organism (the chemical system is like that of fireflies). The light produced is usually blue-green, near the point in the spectrum of maximum transmission...
see the encyclopaedia definition here
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