Disneyland is awesome during the holidays, and Halloween is a great one!
Every year Disneyland decorates the entire park with pumpkins, ghouls, and ghosts. Visit Space Mountain, aka Ghost Galaxy, the Haunted Mansion Holiday, and take a ride down Main Street with all of it’s holiday decorations. Around the statue of Walt Disney, there are 7 pumpkins, each with a different Disney character carved in to it.
Oct 2, 2011 – The Red Tide at Moonlight Beach in Encinitas causes the waves to glow a cool blue color. The glowing is caused by Bioluminescence from the algae in the water. It is called the “Red Tide” because the algae looks red during the day.
This video shows 7 waves. Each in “real time” and then in 50% slow motion for a more dramatic effect. No color correction was done to this video, this is truly how they look. To get these shows I went in the water about waist deep with my video camera. Pretty sure all the people on the beach thought I was crazy with a video camera just a few inches from liquid death!
For those in the Southern California area, you can see the Red Tide Bioluminescence Waves as far south as Mission Beach, and as far north as Huntington Beach. The best two places I’ve been to are La Jolla Shores and Moonlight Beach in Encinitas. I also stopped at Ponto in Carlsbad which was glowing, but the waves were breaking too far out to get on camera.
Amazing blue glowing waves at La Jolla Shores beach caused by the red tide that hit San Diego on September 29, 2011.
The bright blue color is caused by bioluminescence from an algae bloom. The algae is red in the day, hence the name Red Tide, but glows a bright blue at night when agitated, such as when a wave breaks. It’s a really awesome sight to see…. when people swim in the water, the entire water around them glows blue. Truly amazing!
No color correction was made to this video…. This is really the color of the waves. The final shot at the end is in slow motion.
And just as a side note — it is really difficult to get video of these waves. They seem pretty bright in person, but video cameras just have a hard time picking it up and focusing. Only took me about 90 minutes at the beach to get this 16 seconds of good footage 
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Update: My video on cool glowing waves has been syndicated on the weather channel http://www.weather.com/weather/videos/most-popular-62/most-viewed-436/cool-glowing-waves-22059
Also received a message from ABC news to use my video on the Diane Sawyer show. Very cool!
Update 2: I went up to Huntington Beach on Friday, September 30 and the waves were glowing just south of the Huntington Beach Pier as well. So the Red Tide can be seen at least that far north. Although it didn’t glow as brightly in Huntington as it did in La Jolla.
This video travel guide highlights the Temples and Shrines of Nikko in Japan.
The shrines and temples in the Nikko area are a Unesco world heritage site, and is one of the most popular day trips for tourists in Tokyo. The shrines and temples of Nikko, together with their natural surroundings, have for centuries been a sacred site known for its architectural and decorative masterpieces. They are closely associated with the history of the Tokugawa Shoguns. This video shows the main attractions in Nikko which are the Futarasan-jinja shrine, the Tôshôgu shrine, and the Rinnô-ji temple.
In this video we take a tour of some of the most spectacular Cherry Blossoms in the Tohoku region of Japan (near Sendai).
In this Cherry Blossom video I discuss the Japanese tradition of Sakura Matsuri. Sakura Matsuri translates to “Cherry Blossom Festivals.” In Japan there is often a “street fair” that is setup in the area in which the cherry blossoms boom. The Sakura Matsuri is most popular at night for eating, and of course drinking. Another popular tradition in Japan during the time of Cherry Blossoms is “Hanami.” Hanami translates to “flower viewing”, but is often a picnic under the Cherry Blossom trees. In the video I also show some of the traditional food eaten during Cherry Blossom season including yakitori and takoyaki.
A fun city tour video of Dublin Ireland.
This video highlights the major tourist sites in Dublin including Trinity College for the Book of Kells, Pubs in Temple Bar, Guiness Storehouse, Eating Fish and Chips at Leo Burdock, Kilmanham Jail, and O’Connel St.
This video highlights an evening on the Musical Pub Crawl in Dublin Ireland in August 2011.
The Musical Pub Crawl meets in Temple Bar and visits a couple of pubs to enjoy about 2 hours of traditional Irish folk music.
The Irish are a very musical people. This video showcases a guy that I found on the streets of Dublin Ireland playing the spoons in the neighborhood of Temple Bar. Pretty amazing what he can do with 2 spoons!
His name is Decklan Walsh — and apparently he’s been playing the spoons for quite a long time!
Traffic in Naples Italy is absolutely crazy insane.
If there are any rules, they sure don’t seem to be enforced. This video is from a “left turn yield” intersection — which really works out to be much more of a “left turn go” intersection. They don’t yield in Naples, they just go!
Spotted at the Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas. They’ve converted old cigarette vending machines in to “fine art” vending machines. $5 for whatever art is in there. Cool concept, but I wonder how many customers they really get?