Fairies give joy: inner joy, outer joy. They give joy to sweet, innocent people through dreams. Sometimes, during meditation, they dance around. On a limited scale, they can fulfil wishes. They are always happy.
Excerpt from Conversations With The Master by Sri Chinmoy
We had arrived. First we came by ferry from the port of Fajardo on the east coast of Puerto Rico. Then in order to witness this hidden wonder of the Caribbean we stayed overnight in a guest house in Esperanza, Vieques. We were picked up in front of the guest house where we stayed in a rickety old school bus and our Island Adventures Biobay Tour was underway. We bumped along on the bus through the woods and pulled up at the edge of Mosquito Bay – reputed to be one of the best bioluminescent bays in the world.
We boarded a large pontoon boat and luckily the moon was nearly invisible in its cycle. The stars above shone brightly and the tour guides used a laser flashlight to tell us about the constellations as we rode out into the middle of the bay. They also explained about the fragile ecosystem with the mangroves and the highly salty water in the bay that contributes to the large concentration of micro-organisms that light up when motion stirs the waters.
It wasn’t until the final moment when they said that we could climb down the stairs on the end of the boat that I pondered the issue of my glasses. I cannot see well at all without them and if I wanted to swim in the bio bay and see the lights I would need them to stay on. I am so glad that I decided to take my chances and figured that the flotation vest that we donned would keep me buoyed high enough above the water to keep my glasses safely on my head.
The words magical and delightful cannot begin to convey how awesome it was to move about in the water and watch the lights sparkle in the darkness around you. It was an experience unlike any other. Laughter and squeals of wonder were everywhere and we got ideas of how to move within the water to create the magic from watching each other. One of my favorites was to pretend you were playing the piano on the top of the water – fingers dancing on the bay and emitting sparks of light. Or if you dipped your arm into the water and lifted it out, the lights would sparkle in a trail wherever the water trickled down your arm. Old memories of water ballet suddenly resurfaced and I made dainty kicks and sweeping twirls in the water which caused the area around you to light up like a flashlight.
Now I know how Tinkerbell gets her fairy dust. For sure it is bottled and exported from the Bioluminescent Bay in Vieques. If you want to see what it feels like to be a fairy, all you have to do is swim in a bioluminescent bay.
And if you want to imagine what the inner light of spirituality might look like in an outward manifestation, all you have to do is swim in a bioluminescent bay. For days afterward, whenever I meditated I thought of that magical night swim full of fairy dust light. The charm, delicacy and beauty of dancing sparkling light surely serves as a stellar representative of the effect of meditation and spiritual devotion in the midst of an otherwise ordinary day.
It is nearly impossible to catch the luminescence on camera or film. You can see photos of it at Biobay.com. Also you can watch this YouTube slideshow/video of Puerto Rico and Vieques Island Beaches and fall in love with PR just like I did:
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