My First Car Trip

San Diego, CA:  Red Tide, Sept & Oct 2011

I stayed nice and warm in my covered carrier, mommy and daddy froze.

Bioluminescent waves, that's what we drove hours in the middle of the night to watch.
The electric blue glow is caused by an algae bloom commonly referred to as a “red tide.” It's an organism, a phytoplankton called Lingulodinium polyedrum.  It turns the water a brownish-red color in the daytime, but at night time, without other light sources interfering, the movement of the waves turns the tide a brilliant blue.  The camera we had was only a point and shoot so we couldn't capture the light show.