Puerto Rico holds one of the planet’s last
bright spots
by Leigh Ann Henion, September 15
I’m
standing in a narrow alleyway when a stranger approaches to tell me that he
can channel the power of the ocean. Crazy? Maybe. But I’m on the island of
Vieques with a similarly far-fetched quest: to swim in a celestial sea. I
tell the man, who introduces himself as Charlie the Wavemaster, that the
Milky Way will soon crackle and shimmer as it slips through my fingers. Bits
of stardust will cling to my hair.
Vieques’s Mosquito Bay, also called Bioluminescent Bay or Bio Bay, is one of
the last ecosystems in the world where dinoflagellates — microscopic,
single-celled organisms — create halos of light around whatever disturbs
their nightly flotation ...
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