{"id":395,"date":"2015-05-20T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/?p=395"},"modified":"2016-04-14T03:53:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T03:53:52","slug":"mother-nature-throws-a-party-on-tasmanias-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/mother-nature-throws-a-party-on-tasmanias-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Nature throws a party on Tasmania’s beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Mother Nature wants to show off, she comes to Australia. This week, the shorelines along some of Southern Tasmania’s beaches were glowing neon\u00a0blue. It’s all thanks to an\u00a0incredible phenomenon known as bioluminescence.<\/p>\n

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Image by Matt Holz<\/p><\/div>\n

For those of you playing at home, this is\u00a0where billions of tiny organisms (called dinoflagellates) group together and bloom under\u00a0surface of the water. When the cells are\u00a0disturbed (eg. by waving your hand through the water), they light up like Christmas. Nobody knows why it happens, but many\u00a0of the country’s scientific-types are saying it’s the best display of bioluminescence they’ve ever seen. For the rest of us, it’s simply a chance to run along the shoreline and splash through the water to create our own private disco.<\/p>\n

Big thanks to local Astrophotgrapher Matt Holz<\/a>, who sent us these pics from Mortimer Bay and\u00a0South Arm, about 40 minutes outside of\u00a0Hobart.<\/p>\n

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Mortimer Bay, by Matt Holz<\/p><\/div>\n

“The photos do not do the bioluminescence justice as to how graceful they are. It was almost like a scene out of the movie “Avatar”, he said.<\/p>\n

\"Matt<\/a>

Image by Matt Holz<\/p><\/div>\n

“The sand under your feet lit up as you took a step, the beach had a constant blue line running along it, its was magical.<\/p>\n

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Image by Matt Holz<\/p><\/div>\n

“To top the night off we had a beautiful clear sky with a stunning Milky-way.”<\/p>\n

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Image by Matt Holz<\/p><\/div>\n

Head to Matt’s\u00a0Facebook page<\/a> for more of his incredible images.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to visit Tasmania with us, take a look at the trips on offer.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Mother Nature wants to show off, she comes to Australia. If you strolled along some of Southern Tasmania’s beaches this week, you might have seen the sand turn electric blue under your feet. How? Why? Was it all just a wonderful dream?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[172,62,87],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hobart","tag-photography","tag-tasmania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}