GIVE US ANOTHER CLUECardon - 3-30-2006 at 05:46 PM
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Originally posted by Bruce R Leech
GIVE US ANOTHER CLUE
OK, it was cropped down from this pic. Don Alley - 3-30-2006 at 05:49 PM
I couldn't see anything in Pomp's boojum pics.
But I got this one. It's a nest of pteradactyl larvae.Cardon - 3-30-2006 at 06:34 PM
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Originally posted by lencho
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Originally posted by Bruce R Leech
GIVE US ANOTHER CLUE
?Botete (puffer)?
--Larry
The flip side
Two different types/shapes of spines
Do you recognize the beach?Bruce R Leech - 3-30-2006 at 07:08 PM
Ohhhhhhhhh now I seePackoderm - 3-30-2006 at 07:59 PM
It looks like a microscopic image of the toilet paper they used to use at my old junior high.
That looks like some strong red tide going on. The phosphorescence at night must have been booming.Cardon - 3-31-2006 at 08:29 AM
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Originally posted by Packoderm
It looks like a microscopic image of the toilet paper they used to use at my old junior high.
That looks like some strong red tide going on. The phosphorescence at night must have been booming.
Yes, the bioluminescense was awesome. At night there was wind and that is what drove it toward the beach. Fortunately there was no moon so it was
quite a show. In the middle of the night I got up several times to look at it. Also, try looking at it with binoculars too- it gives a different
perspective. And make sure you throw handfuls of sand and gravel in it and the ocean will light up. When its piled up on the edge like this you can
also run through it making giant glowing neon blue splashes. It gets on you and your body will just glow for awhile-great fun. It was like this for
two days then on the third day the water was crystal clear.
Packoderm - 3-31-2006 at 09:07 AM
It's funny; I have been calling that phenomenon bioluminescence for years and years after I once read about it in a Moon Baja guidebook, but I got
tired of being to only one to call it that when everybody else called it phosphorescence. So the one, single time I use the word phosphorescence, you
come along and call it bioluminescence. I like the word bioluminescence better because it shows that it comes from something living.
What I think is really cool to do when the bioluminescence is strong is to pick up a handful of sand from the water's edge and the sand appears to be
interspersed with what looks like glowing crystals. The native americans back in the old days must have seen something really heavy into
bioluminescence when they witnessed it.
