Noctiluca is a marine dinoflagellate that lights ... located on Florida’s Atlantic coast! Book a trip here. This warm, shallow bay is surrounded by mangroves and is highlighted as one of the ...

The glow is an indicator of a harmful algal bloom created by something called Noctiluca scintillans, nicknamed Sea Sparkle. It looks like algae and can act like algae. But it’s not quite.

Known as a ‘red tide’ by day, the microalgae Noctiluca scintillans, known as ‘sea sparkle’ emits a bioluminescent blue glow when disturbed at night. Over the last week, residents of Hobart, Tasmania, ...