LED NIGHTLIGHT BIO COMB JELLIES CLEAR BOTTOM KAYAK OR PADDLEBOARD TOUR

Paddleboard with LED lights and watch the underwater night show come to life!

Paddleboard with LED lights and watch the underwater night show come to life! Possible sightings of Bioluminescent Dinoflagellates during plankton bio season (June – October)! Possible sightings of Bioluminescent Comb Jellies!

The Magic of Bioluminescence: Nature’s Living Light Show

If you’ve ever joined one of our nighttime kayak tours, you know the feeling, dipping your paddle into the water and watching it sparkle like liquid stars. That glowing, otherworldly light is called bioluminescence, and it’s one of nature’s most mesmerizing phenomena.

What Is Bioluminescence?

Bioluminescence is the natural ability of living organisms to produce light. In the water, that glow usually comes from tiny plankton called dinoflagellates. When these microscopic organisms are disturbed by movement, like the swirl of your paddle or the splash of a fish, they give off a bright blue or green light.

What Are Bioluminescent Comb Jellies?

These beauties are truly a natural phenomenon! They are quite prehistoric. Translucent to our eyes during the day and vibrantly glowing at night. What makes them glow you may ask? It is how they defend themselves. They have multiple rings around their body that glow. With their oxidation lucferian process they are able to glow anytime they feel needed. These prehistoric jellies only live a few years and travel in colonies.

They eat smaller fish and will eat each other. The Bioluminescent Comb Jellies can be found on our daytime and sunset tours at our locations in the Thousand Islands of Cocoa Beach and Wildlife Refuge in Titusville, Florida. However, once night falls, our eyes adjust and are able to see their bioluminescent defense glow. Book our Thousand Islands Mangrove Tunnel Bioluminescent Comb Jelly Sunset Kayak Tour today! Imagine, fire flies that GLOW in the dark! Grab a fishnet on this tour and watch the magic come to life!