I was watching a show on the Discovery Channel (or one of it’s dirivitives) a while back that showed a particular lake that was home to a variety of bactirium that, when jostled, would florese. now this wasn’t some deep ocean adventure that is inaccessable to folk like you and me, this was a lake you could see the glowing microbes from the surface as the fish swam through them, they looked amazing.
Now for the questions: where is this wonderfull lake, and what are these microbes called? Also, where can I get some??
There appear to be several locations for what you describe. A Google search of “underwater bioluminescence” produced several results. The closest match I found was at Dana Point in CA. However, Dana Point is a coastal city on the ocean.
At leasts one species of underwater fireflies is called euphasids.
http://www.nightsea.com/summary.htm
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That’s not quite the same as what I saw on this show. These literaly looked like underwater fireflys, trailing behind fish and even a diver that got in the water. It showed how these bacteria were eaten by a shrimp that than had to hide inthe sand so his glowing innards wouldn’t point him out to fish.
Check this out: http://www.biobay.com/
That’s a pretty common phenomenon, although I’ve never heard or seen it in a lake. Doa search for “phosphorescence” and you’ll turn up all kinds of good stuff.
My family has property in the San Juan Islands in Washington state, and every summer the phosphorescence comes out, so-to-speak. The warmer the weather, the stronger the presence of it, to the point that if we go out in the rowboat we’ll leave a glowing trail wherever we go. It’s magical, and something I’ll always treasure. The color at home is a very light green, but when I was in Hawaii, I saw the same thing, only with a pink cast to it. Gorgeous. It’s especially fun to write your name in the wet sand after a wave has rolled back, and watch it glow before getting washed away.
That is exactly it Shiva, thanks.