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"What if the water lit up blue every time your paddle moved?"
There is nothing quite like dipping a paddle into Lough Hyne on a warm summer night and watching the water explode into cold blue fire around it. Bioluminescence is one of those things that sounds made-up until you are sitting in a kayak in the dark, trailing your fingers over the side and laughing at the glow left behind. It rewires something in your brain about what nature is capable of. You come back to shore quieter, more amazed, and absolutely certain the world is stranger and better than you gave it credit for.
Sinéad (30), Dublin — works in procurement for a logistics company, obsessed with cold water swimming since 2022
I'd seen the videos online and assumed someone had messed with the colour grading.
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