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blackstar
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Why was water so greeny?
bluzman
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That question can only be answered by a higher power.
Seriously, it's what the camera saw.
blackstar
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Is it what you saw?That question can only be answered by a higher power.
Seriously, it's what the camera saw.
bluzman
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Jeez!! YES, that's what I saw,too! I was shooting down into small cove from a bluff probably 100 feet above water level. The hillsides around the cove are covered with green vegetation so the what the camera and I saw was likely the reflection of the green color of the surroundings.
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Clovishound
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Didn't the Beach Boys write a song about that?
bluzman
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It's all good. I was having a bad day...shouldn't have let it spill over on you. Sorry.
bluzman
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Guénolé
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Yes.
BF Hammer
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Or a blue-green algae bloom. Common for a lake, but I have never been to an ocean.Usually, clean sandy bottom makes for a greener water, as it is yellowish. Blue + yellow = green, but we knew this, right?
Blue439
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Exactly. Which is why a sandy bottom seems more likely to me —and of course shallow waters, so that the bottom can actually impact our visual perception. For example, this photo of the Doelan Inlet in Brittany: the light patches are sand, the darker ones are where algæ grow: