Bioluminescent plankton
Kategori: Allmänt
Our hostel organised trips to go to a lake with bioluminescent plankton, and that means - they glow.
At 6:30 we took a party car up to the town, and 20 minutes away to a lake. In the boat a bit nervous, we don't know what to expect to see.
Matthew and our new big friend from Canada.
After finishing the beers the boat started. It was one of the most amazing experiences we've had on this trip. As soon as the boat started moving you could see it glowing, and the further out we came the more it glowed. To make the plankton glow you need to touch them, or some sort of motion as waves or fish. Our boat goes through big schools of fish and you can see them clearly glowing and swimming around the boat. It's hard to describe, if you've seen life of PI you know what we mean.
We even saw some baby crocodiles swim pass and glow up the dark water.
Suddenly the boat stops and the guide says- time for a swim. He dives into the water and he is glowing. A little bit scared but mostly excited we jumped into the water. It was so unbelievable warm and nice and I dived under and opened my eyes and I've never seen anything like that. Thousands and thousands of glowing plankton in front of me.
when coming up in the boat again we could se my bikini glow from all the plankton and Matthew's pants was full of the little glowing things.
I found some pictures on google that can show you what we couldn't catch with our camera.
This is what it must have looked like at further distance when we swam in the water. Though Our friends plankton gave a more green light than on the picture here and it was way more glitter and twinkle.
Open your eyes underwater and this is what you see.
