I’ve been fortunate to be living in Tasmania for about 5 years. During this time, I’ve become so much more aware of the environment. I moved to the East Coast and more specifically to beautiful Freycinet on arrival in Tassie and started chasing auroras being an avid amateur photographer. One evening when the stars aligned for a beautiful aurora, I noticed some waves hitting the rocks and saw the most outstanding colours in the water. This neon blue was splashing about and then it all made sense to me when people posted things about bioluminescence on social media. Whilst it looks amazing, there are many bioluminescent algae species that are toxic and harmful to ocean life and certainly to humans too. The next day I walked about the Coles Bay jetty and noticed all this ‘pink stuff’ floating around near the rocks and that was the algae I had seen the previous day.
