bonanza bucko - 3-29-2009 at 09:52 AM
We just got back from a week and a half at Afonsina's. We saw some really bright phosphorescence in the water last Wednesday night. There was a
small suft and every wave top was outlined with a bright green/white glow. Beautiful....almost kept me awake past 2000.
We used to swim in this down there in the summer. Fun. Best skinny dipping on earth.
Long ago we used to see dolphins make a run at our ship and leave a green trace in the water that looked just like a torpedo. Can't say how many
times I've ordered the helm over to turn the bow...small target...against one of those. We used to read a book on the fan tail by that light it we
were going fast enough.
Nature is great!...has things to see that most don't ever see.
Ditto Baja where we saw a nice herd of range cattle yesterday...long horns and all. They live up with Chupacabra and somehow avoid him.
We sometimes see a couple of nice Big Horn Sheep south of Puertecitos on "That Road."
ah..those fireworks displays in Baja.
Pompano - 3-29-2009 at 10:28 AM
bonanza bucko, couldn't agree more on the great shows the red tide puts on for us. I can't count the times we've skipped seashells
into it, watched fish rings, swum, dived, plowed glowing furrows on night voyages, and boat-camped in a sea of milk. Totally
awesome! as my niece would say.
Like you said, until you've spent a night on the Cortez with errie ghostly whales, porpoise, manta rays, and God knows what else passing under your
hull, you haven't seen anything!
Here's a couple of red tides at Coyote Bay...and a look at one in Florida, too.
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Alan - 3-29-2009 at 10:36 AM
My daughter was only 5 the first time I took her out for dorado in Loreto. As typical we climbed into the panga at O:dark-thirty and headed out to
make bait. The sea was greasy flat so they panguero opened it up. The phosphorese lit up the bottom of the boat with that beautiful blue glow and
the spray twinkled like stars as it splashed across the surface. My daughter looked up at me and said, "Daddy, this is just like a magic carpet
ride". She has been hooked every since and is still my fishing partner almost twenty years later.
Udo - 3-29-2009 at 11:06 AM
Here is a victim of the red tide. Same victim at different times of the day.
Bajahowodd - 3-29-2009 at 11:50 AM
Red tide might produce effects that are cool to see, but it does wreak havoc on the marine population.
Iflyfish - 3-29-2009 at 12:27 PM
Magic, simply magic. One of those Baja experiences not to be forgotten.
Iflyfishandmarvel