"The blue wavelengths of light are scattered, similar to the scattering of blue light in the sky, but absorption is a much larger factor than scattering for the clear ocean water.

Arnold also says the ocean’s temperature plays a big part in the color as well. “Right now the water temperature is sitting at about 85. That tends to bring in some more microorganisms in the ...

Sitting at the picnic table, you get a nice view of the sparkling blue lake, which is man-made, I found out later. It was dug out in the 1970s by the Stewart Sand Mine and has evidently filled up ...