“The most intense nights, we've been throwing balls of light 30 feet behind our kayaks with each paddle stroke.” —Suki Waters
blue fluorescent light spills off of your kayak paddle and you get fluorescent light tracers that come off your kayak.” Dickson says they often see large schools of herring and anchovy that get startled by the kayak flotilla. “When they swim away you get these electric bolts, like electricity under the water’s surface,” he says. They also do bat ray expeditions during certain tides. “When we find the bat rays, it's literally like a 2-foot by 2-foot fluorescent diamond shape under your kayak that then swims away with these thick tracers that run for like 20 and 30 yards,” he says. They sometimes see leopard sharks with their own distinct fluorescent shapes under the water, as well. “We'll find schools that are so large it's like a light switch flips on underneath the ocean and there's so much light given off by the bioluminescence that you can literally see the herring in the middle of the night in pitch black darkness.” Adds Dickson: “The amount of life, the warm water, the rugged coastline and then the amount of bioluminescence that exists—it’s just an unforgettable experience.” g
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