Surfing Waves

Ive just got back from a sesh at one of my local breaks, and there was the most jellyfish i've EVER seen in one place at one time on the tide-line!!
Has any other local english people noticed these little beasts?! Apparently theyve been washed into out shores from SoCal as of the prolonged gale-force-onshore winds? (sigh)
The are actually pretty rad to look at, a petrolly/disealy blue with a little sail!

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You probably want to be a bit careful of those as they are Portuguese Man Of Wars they sting!

Huh? I remember my biology teacher warning me of those when I surf foreign countries....

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man of wars are real nasty but the ones we normaly get the ones with like 4 rings in the center of them are pretty much harmless

Dont man of wars have a body like 6 feet with 100 feet tenticles.... or thats what i heard.

!! thats a bit scary. ive seen jellies on the beach before, quite a few but not loads. eugh. scaryness.

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Yeh i saw a few getting washed up ... " this make ya laugh , we took a freind with us a couple of weeks ago and he was happy staring and poking a jelly ' " now bearing in mind we all know jelly fish are 'see~thru , yeh" ... my man said hey someone flip it over to see what it looks like on the other side !!!!! " dumbass " LOL

only ever seen 1 man o war in this country and that was when i was a nipper theres been some huge ones washed up in croyde this year

What sort of size where they cause if they wern't much bigger than a £2 coin then they are "by the wind sails"

Do a search for them weird things but tottaly harmless.

seems very unlikly that any MOW's whould be up this way esp this time of year.

PapaWoolacombe wrote:What sort of size where they cause if they wern't much bigger than a £2 coin then they are "by the wind sails"

Do a search for them weird things but tottaly harmless.

seems very unlikly that any MOW's whould be up this way esp this time of year.

Yeah that will be them, they were no more than 2-3 inches across. There was literally thousands of them at Westward Ho, was there many up Woolacombe?

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ahhh when I went surfing in North cali there were millions of em. We usually just through them at eachother.

The ones that I love are here in fl. They are the ones that look like cannon balls. Only the very very bottom sting ya just a little so me and my buddies usually just through them at eachother and had wars between sets. The only bad thing with those were they put this nasty brown crap on your hands and it stunk like crap but it was fun. Now the man of wars are nasty. if there a foot long then there tenticles can be up to 200 ft long. pretty crasy huh? I had one wrap my chest up and almost stopped breathing.

Jellyfish on the other hand suck as well. I fell feet first into one that was two feet in diameter. It stung me from my toes to my nads. pretty crapy. After peeing on my legs (it really does take away the pain a little) I passed out and everyone thought I was dead untill someone who knew what they were doing came along.

You have to be carefull with these things or they can be nasty. I see all of these all the time but those were pretty much the only encounters i've had with them in my 14 years of surfing.

Aaawww my gawd!!
At least yor lived to tell the tale though!!

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i see what you mean about the jelly fish i was at saunton today there where 1000's of them was having to paddle through them all at some point, didnt get stung so im guessing there harmless

Chillie - I expect there were, i'm back at uni now so don't know for deffo.

Basically there are similar to algae but classes as an animal rather than a plant. Nervless and shows no signs of intelegance or indepenant though they just drift on the waters surface hence the name.
With all the West winds we haqv had over the last week they have all washed ashore.

Totally harmless.
worst they can do is stick the place up when they start rotting. REAL FISHY!

yeah those are the ones

i surfed woolacombe from 5 - 7 pm on sunday and yes there were loads of those weird jellyfish!The one above this comment i thort it was something a boat had dumped in the sea! Yeh u culdnt help but tred on em as u left the ocean so def harmless too.

theyre actually quite cute little critters.

PapaWoolacombe wrote:Chillie - I expect there were, i'm back at uni now so don't know for deffo.

Basically there are similar to algae but classes as an animal rather than a plant. Nervless and shows no signs of intelegance or indepenant though they just drift on the waters surface hence the name.
With all the West winds we haqv had over the last week they have all washed ashore.

Totally harmless.
worst they can do is stick the place up when they start rotting. REAL FISHY!

Phew!
I was worried when I was paddling around, I was convinced I would duckdive a wave and come up with tenticales all over my face!
Thanks for the observations/info dudes!

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Yeah does sound like they are By-The-Wind Sailors.
Just been looking into what we do get in uk tho ....
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Moonjell.htm#COMMON%20MOON.

man check out this pic from cornwall