‘It’s beautiful’: bioluminescence lights up ocean in Tasmania and parts of NSW in glowing end to 2023

Sea sparkles' appeared at Hobart's waterfront, the NSW mid-north coast and Sydney's Manly, with hundreds delighting in the natural phenomenon

Revellers along the Hobart waterfront welcomed in the new year with the glow of fireworks in the sky - and bright, blue bioluminescence lighting up the ocean.

With an easterly wind bringing the sea sparkle" to the east coast, onlookers were treated to a truly glowing end to 2023.

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