Light (or the lack of)

This is a short story of lights in remote area.  I'm not including any pictures since our camera's aren't the best at taking low light shots.......

......this morning at 3:00am we headed out to the processor to pack up an order (shellfish) headed for town. The sea planes are booked up with all the summer help heading back to America (as we call it), last minute tourists and fisherman so we had to take the ferry over and have to get there rather early 7:00am. It's a half hour boat ride and 2 hour drive through the mountains to get to the terminal. Our summer season is winding down....

......back to the light.... while riding to the processor in the boat the wake of the boat was glowing a bright green...like a glow stick.. where ever the water was disturbed, the droplets for the bow splashing out to the sides, the waves off the stern and the prop wash from behind the motor was really glowing.  This is bioluminescence caused by a certain kind of phytoplanketon in the water called Noctiluca scintillans. We a have a big time bloom of it going on right now........

....so we got the order packed and JR and Zach head off toward town.....It was starting to get a little morning light now, it's overcast so it's not like the sun is peeking through, just not pitch black like earlier and I can see the outline of the mountains around us, the tops of them were covered in clouds....what kinda dawned on me at this very moment was there wasn't a light anywhere to be seen......no light pollution, no glow in the sky from a city off in the distance, nobody, nothing........ Now Linn and I have traveled all over through the mountains down in America and we usually see lights sprinkled all over them at night from the distance......

......back to the light.....or lack of ......couple nights ago I was outside and it was clear out......no moon up yet and the stars were shining so bright just twinkling at us. The milky way was shining super bright...the sky looks so big too. Thought we saw a UFO darting around .....but that's another story for later.

The morning is finally here.....foggy, overcast, still, peaceful.........

here's one picture for you since it's getting light out...

Great Blue Heron on the point at the right side. Fog is rolling in.

Alaska....It is either all light (summer) or all dark (winter).....in our part of the state it gets to about 3 hours of dark in the summer....the sun may not be up in the sky that much the glow of the light is.... opposite is true in the winter and can get kinda of gloomy if you are one of those people that need their sunshine.

Our sunsets are another facet of light that deserve it's own chapter.....last night was a beauty.

Looking west from our deck. The far tree line is over a mile away.

Shot of the moon and must have moved the camera before the lens shut. Kinda looks like a shooting star.