Thursday, January 7, 2010

I went back tonight just to be sure it was real...

I went back tonight just to be sure it was real...

Walking on the beach these last evenings.  A few circuits and into the darkness of my favorite stretch of coastline.


I saw a glimmer of light at my heel.  Then again.  The glint of the moon on my ocean kissed boots?
Nope.  The moon was not up yet.


Every step a glint or two.  Now sometimes in front or adjacent my feet.  
"Now this is interesting" I thought.


A Micheal Jackson moment?  The beach lighting up with my feet as if I was in a nature lovers version of the 1980's "Billie Jean" video.


A quick moon walk and yes the sand was lighting up under my feet.


Bioluminescence baby.  "Sorry dudes!"  I kept walking.


Imagine walking on crystal sands under the stars.  Now reach up, grab some sky and flip up so that you are walking upside-down watching your feet obscure the heavens.  As you walk the stars around each foot begin to scintilate a bright green blue a few inches (light years?) surrounding your foot as you put your weight on it.  Then they go back to normal.
That's what it looked like.  


You can come down now.


So there is some kind of dinoflagellate bloom of my little pyrrophytic friends going on in the sand at my favorite beach.
Is there an up-welling of cold Monterey trench waters chock full of nutrients? Perhaps in Winter due to global warming?
Are the bioluminescent dinos here to meet and procreate?


Tomorrow night I will bring my fire poi and burn green (ETOH and MgSO4)  to signal a welcome from the two legeds and give a thanks for the last few nights display.


I might hum along to the old Michael Jackson song while moon-walking and  spinning fire.




P.S. Let me know if you want to check it out with me.

4 comments:

  1. i'll catch the next shooting star to monterey to join you moonwalker...

    in the meantime, your post reminds me of a poem i wrote last year...i'll see if i can dig it up

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  2. ok, here's the poem:

    "the journey of one solitary soul"

    i remember a time
    when i swam in the sea
    my fins pushing softly
    at the water around me

    i came to the shore
    and there i found legs
    to keep moving forward
    now lifting my head

    the sun shining brightly
    so much warmth in this land
    wanting to reach out and touch it
    i then found my hands

    i took a breath in
    expanding my lungs
    such joy flooded over
    a song to be sung

    my soul then breathed out
    releasing all fear
    this life is so beautiful
    the message so clear

    eyes scanning wildly
    the colors so bright
    i unfolded my wings
    readied for flight

    my feet left the ground
    my body so free
    the earth i so loved
    far beneath me

    then darkness descended
    obscuring my sight
    but deep within me
    i remembered the light

    so i continued my flight
    riding the currents that came
    rising and falling
    without fear, so untamed

    but then the rains came
    my wings became wet
    heavy with moisture
    my fate now seemed set

    falling through storm clouds
    chilled to the bone
    suddenly i realized
    i was completely alone

    chaos around me
    screaming within
    afraid of my future
    and the places i'd been

    i searched for the memories
    of love, joy, not pain
    where was my center?
    was i going insane?

    my muscles contracted
    it had to be near
    the hard truth below me
    the end that i feared

    but instead of the earth
    i fell through the waves
    into the cradle of water
    my soul had been saved

    my journey had started
    right here in the sea
    the beginning and end
    always present in me

    ~ ginna grace ~ winter hibernation 2008~

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  3. The secret luminescent spot is below the PB golf course.
    I wonder if fertilizer run off is enabling the dinos to survive...

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