« Pop Muzik | Main | It's going to be a »
September 01, 2003
Spent part of Labor Day
We spent part of Labor Day weekend with Tim & Donna and Mike & Jenn and their kids at Loveladies, NJ, on Long Beach Island (www.longbeachisland.com). Surprised how acclimated I have gotten to the Florida warmth - it was 74 and breezy on the Jersey Shore this weekend, and I was cold. Not chilled; flat out cold. It was a great time though... fun to hang out with the kids, and it's always nice to be at the beach.
Interesting phenomenon Tim, Mike and I observed... after the kids and the girls had gone to bed, the three of us guys went out to the beach to smoke a cigar and take in the ocean at night. We started noticing that some of the waves seem to almost glow in the dark as they broke before reaching the shore. Mike had heard of it before - turns out, a certain type of algae exhibits biolumniescence (http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/~biolum/) when agitated or stirred up... so as the waves broke while rolling into shore, the algae was giving off its glow. Pretty cool effect.
Another thing I learned much to my chagrin: when walking down a beach just after high tide, close to midnight, in the dark, makes it hard to see the jellyfish that the tide leaves behind on the sand - which in turn makes the things easy to step on. Yuck.
