I should clarify that most of the time I view it as a priviledge.
We as gondoliers are so dang lucky to have this job.
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...and then heads off in the opposite direction
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The post-sunset colors were spectacular this evening - reminding me of just how many colors can be seen at the end of a day.
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As the sun disappeared, things calmed down a bit and the tide dropped.
I rowed and sang for my various couples, and around 7:30 I saw something in the water I'd never seen - a bioluminescent green thing in the water.
This squiggly glowing worm was right there next to my boat.
I couldn't believe my eyes. I've been operating gondolas in Newport since '93 and tonight was the first time I'd seen such a thing.
As you might have guessed,
I'll be researching those glowing green worms.
Rowing into the night, I enjoyed the smell of wood-burning fires carried by the cool night breeze, and appreciated the coming of Fall.
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First time, Greg? Alamitos Bay seems to get that algae quite a bit. It's a nice conversation starter for the cruise. I like seeing the glow when kids are on my boat. Then they don't seem so bored. Sometimes I jump in place and that causes fish to move around underwater creating huge streaks of blue/green. They like that.
Hi John.
We get the reactive glow once or twice a year. It's fin to swish the remo back and forth through it and see the glow, even cooler to see a propeller stirring it up.
This was different though; looked like a glowing worm. It was almost as bright as the glowing necklace things they pass around at amusement parks at night.
oh, wow. i can't wait to read your research on it.
Did you just write that a propeller, in some way, is better than a remo? My eyes are bleeding.
Get Out!
I would NEVER say that.
well, after rowing 10 hours against wind and current, I might think it, but only for an instant. Then my inner "Tyler Durden" would check me back into reality.
The propellers I was talking about were from yachts.
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