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Bioluminescent Bay tours

Book far in advance if you want a standard tour!  Tours were all booked up when we went to the
Island.  We had no choice but to rent a small private fishing boat and hire a local Fisherman (who
was not a tour guide but a very nice fellow, and he knew the area well) to take us in.  It was worth
the extra money.  If you have to get to the bay by non-traditional means be very careful not to
rent anything that might pollute the water - check to make sure the boat doesn't leak fuel or oil.
This bay is remarkable and should be considered one of the "Wonders of the World" - any pollution
could kill it.  By all means, try to book one of the traditional tours first. They are very
careful not to pollute.  The less boats in this bay the better.
 

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Excursiones a la Bahía Bioluminiscente

¡Debe hacer reservaciones por adelantado si desea una excursión tradicional!  Nuestra experiencia
cuando visitamos la isla fue que todas las excursiones estaban llenas y no tuvimos otra
alternativa que alquilar una embarcación pequeña de un pescador (muy amigable y conocedor del área).  Si
tiene que tiene que llegar a la Bahía en una forma no-tradicional, debe asegurarse de que la
embarcación que utilice no descargue aceite o gasolina.  La Bahía es excepcional y debe considerarse una
de las maravillas del mundo.  Cualquier contaminación podría ser mortal.  Intente bajo todos los
medios tomar una de las excursiones tradicionales ya que son en extremo cuidadosos en no contaminar.
Mientras menos embarcaciones en la Bahía, mejor.

Bioluminescent Bay,Vieques Island,Tropical tours,Vieques Travel planner,Tropical Island tourist information,Vieques Island Travel guideThe first thing you notice is the wake - a luminous, emerald path of foam lingering below the stern. There are other boats here on Mosquito Bay at night, but you can barely see them- only their wakes, glowing like the lights of distant cities. Suddenly, there’s a flash of the bow. A startled porgy bursts through the water, leaving a cometlike trail. Then another. And another. Soon the water explodes with porgies, mullets, and halfbeaks in an underwater fireworks display Its biological classification is no longer a mystery, but just why Pyrodinium flashes is a puzzle that scientists have not yet been able to definitively solve. The function is not well understood,says Paul Dunlap, a specialist in bioluminescence at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts. In other bioluminescent organisms- certain fish, for example we know they use it to attract prey or mates. Or to scare off predators.Dunlap and most other scientists suggest that the later explains why dinoflagellates are bioluminescent. Some think that the organism flash as a