MOSQUITO BAY
Bay — Vieques, Puerto Rico
Status: Natural site · Access: Access unknown
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/mosquito-bay-vieques-puerto-rico/

Vieques bay with naturally bioluminescent water.

Mosquito Bay is a bay in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Vieques bay with naturally bioluminescent water. HauntHunt files it with natural phenomena and bioluminescence. Mosquito Bay’s file is thin — a name, a place, and the reason it was filed. The short entry above is the whole of it for now. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.

Mosquito Bay is the brightest water on earth — the Vieques lagoon where Pyrodinium bahamense, the 'whirling fire' dinoflagellate, concentrates 700,000 to the gallon and flashes blue-green when the water moves. Guinness made it official in 2006; the narrow mouth that keeps the organisms in and the mangroves that feed them made it natural. Named for the pirate Cofresí's ship — the Mosquito — the bay glows on dark nights like the water's on fire.
Hurricane Maria killed the glow in 2017 — the mangroves stripped, the shoreline eroded, eight months dark. The bay came back brighter — by 2019 the count was three million per gallon, the record broken by the bay itself. One of seven year-round bioluminescent bays in the Caribbean, and the brightest of them all — the water that lights when you touch it, the pirate's name on the most magical bay in the world.
The file keeps Mosquito Bay: the 700,000-per-gallon glow, the Cofresí name, the Maria blackout, and the comeback that tripled the record.
Mosquito Bay is the archive's glow file — the brightest bioluminescent water on earth.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Mosquito Bay is the archive's glow file — the brightest bio bay and the comeback after Maria.
A bay keeps its fire — the file's suggestion being that Mosquito Bay's hold is the resilience: the dinoflagellates that went dark for eight months and came back brighter than the record, the water that still flashes blue-green under every paddle.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Guide to Experiencing Puerto Rico’s Three Bioluminescent Bays — Discover Puerto Rico
  https://www.discoverpuertorico.com/article/guide-to-exploring-puerto-ricos-bioluminescent-bays

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