Red Tide: Red tide glows blue along the San Diego coast (photo)

While the red tide looks horrible during the day, it's absolutely magnificent at night. I was out at Huntington Beach south of the pier last night, and the hints of bright, purplish glow gleams off the whitewash when the light hits itBy Elizabeth Flock Along the San Diego coastline, after night falls, look closely and you might see a neon, purplish-blue light out in the ocean, an effect of the phenomenon of the “red tide.” Bioluminescent phytoplankton create their own light

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