'Magical' Video Shows Dolphins Aglow while Swimming Through Bioluminescent Waves in California

[WillParkinson]

https://people.com/pets/glowing-dolphins-bioluminesce-waves-california

These dolphins were ready for their closeup!

On Wednesday, photographer and videographer Patrick Coyne went out on a night time boat ride in the waters off Newport Beach, California, where bioluminescent waves have been spotted in recent weeks, giving the water a beautiful blue glow. Much to his delight, while on the water, a group of dolphins swam up beside the boat.

“The bioluminescence off Newport Beach has been out of this world!” Newport Coastal Adventure wrote on Facebook, alongside a video taken that night that showed the animals swimming around “as they lit up the night.”

“As soon as the dolphins showed up, I literally shed a tear,” Coyne told the Orange County Registrar.

[FirstLight]

1. Wow... beautiful ❤️

Thanks for sharing this

Our world is so full of amazing sights 🥰

[lark]

2. Truly amazing!

Wouldn't it have been so great to be there and see that in person? Wow. Mother nature!

[jeffreyi]

3. Ditto, all of the above.

[2naSalit]

4. That's beautiful.

I became aware of such phenomena in Maine back in the early 1970s, walking along wet sand on a beach and noticing that each footprint glowed. Some of us were doing psychotropic substances so it took a few minutes to figure out if were collectively hallucinating or not. We had a "straight" chaperon who drove us to the beach and they confirmed that we were really all seeing it. The wave glowed too.

It was quite the "trip" if you will.