The coastline is seeing a boom in the number of people hunting bioluminescent plankton at night.
"It started off when I did a trip to Anglesey three years ago to hopefully see the bioluminescence at Penmon Point because it's a really good place to see it," she explained.after five years of trying.Image source,Emma Tumulty captured her first sighting of bioluminescent plankton in Wales at Caswell Bay this monthlast year, which shares information with plankton seekers, and last weekend went with three friends for an overnight stay at Gower, determined to make it happen.
Emma finally left the beach at 2am but will be returning to a different location, Newton beach in Porthcawl, next weekend in the hope of catching it again. Peter Boden-Ryan, who runs a holiday cottage business in the Swansea valley, was one of the founding members of the Facebook group and has seen membership rocket since it first started in 2017.Peter Boden-Ryan has seen the bioluminescence Facebook group he help create attract thousands of members
He got involved with the Facebook group early on and found it a natural extension of the astro-photography he was already doing, as the beaches of south Wales are a good spot for capturing the night skies. Although many plankton hunters will move from beach-to-beach as reports of sightings come in online, he prefers to stay in one place, having had enough experience of moving only to then find people have later seen the lights at the very place he left.
"Obviously [we are] trying to keep people safe if they need to traverse a rocky beach" he said, adding people could use torches to get down but turn them off once they were on level ground.Thomas is "one of the fanatics" who will go out multiple times in a week to try to see the planktonHowever he added: "It's the start of the season. People will see it once and they're happy.
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