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Mangrove thicket
Mangrove thicket

Note the red and blue highlights on the turbid water under the trees. The phenomenon is discussed here. www.atoptics.co.uk/fz426.htm

The rusty red and blue-green light patches are produced by turbid water. The water full of very small particles that scatter the sunlight. Near the surface these particles scatter blue light back upwards. Air molecules do the same to make the sky blue. The blue light is only visible against regions where the water bed is in shadow. All this blue scattering leaves the light reaching deeper into the water strongly reddened – hence the rusty red light patches.

Thanks to Les Cowley for his reference and the explanation above.

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Taken on: November 4, 2021
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