Surfing Waves

Hello
please could any 1 tell me any gd surf spots in the uk which does not have alot of jellyfish i dont like them lol

and are longboards more easy to surf with ?

my shortboard is getting old so would a long board be better ?

thanks corkey

tis a bit cold for jellyfish id have thought theyre normally out in summer/autumn

I read in da newspaper (so it must be true) that the conditions this year are perfect for a massive influx of jellyfish into UK waters

So summer might be fun....

About two weeks ago Topsail Island, North Carolina had hundreds of Man O War wash up on their beach.

Really.....didn't hear about that....

Well, I guess it means more dead blue bottles, which is cool with me!

I often water ski in jellyfish infested waters, and I either wear an old loose fitting wetsuit that lets everything flow through, or a full body rash guard. But they usually come in around June and leave/die around September (trunkning season)

Pretty nasty stuff, I'm absolutely terrified of them.

I've heard that pouring hard alcohol on stings helps a lot. Someone said keep a big flask in your truck, and if you get stung by a blue bottle, pour half the flask on the sting and drink the other half, you'll be fine!

tomcat360 wrote: if you get stung by a blue bottle, pour half the flask on the sting and drink the other half, you'll be fine!

Er, bit of a language issue here I think...

A bluebottle in the UK is a fly - harmless apart from the unpleasant thought that it was probably walking around on dog poo before it landed on you.

Whats a US bluebottle?

A "blue bottle" is the nick name for a Portugeuse (sp?) man-o-war, because they kinda look like a blue soda bottle floating around out there.

Works for most jellyfish. It was on mythbusters! (except they used some really weak jellyfish)

Still a few of biiiiiiig jellys about in the irish sea.. its what all the leatherbacks chow down on..

As for the rest of the year your not going to escape them just play tennis with them.. they are harmless... (moon jellies)

Don't think their is many in the North Sea, There again there isn't much in the North sea anyway!

Hey Tomcat, try vinegar on the blue bottle stings. Got stung LOTS in Oz and we were told by the lifeguards to use the vinegar. It works! At least as well as can be expected. Takes the pain away in a couple minutes. Leaves the long nasty welt though.

Oh yeah, I've used vinegar as well. Works pretty good, actually, works a bunch better for me, because if I drank a half flask of vodka I highly doubt I'd be able to drive the boat back to the dock.

Also, pissing on it helps a bunch.

never tried the pissing.

Lemon also works. Cut the lemon into quarters, take a piece, pull back your eye lids, squeeze lemon in eye. Repeat with new piece in other eye. Will not feel pain from Jellyfish sting anymore.

Haha, sounds like it works pretty much as well as the car-batteries-to-nipples technique.

I hate man o war they wrap around your arms and legs, but have you noticed that when they touch your palms you don't get stung

miamisurfer wrote:I hate man o war they wrap around your arms and legs, but have you noticed that when they touch your palms you don't get stung

yeah your right about the palm thing...last summer off the Jersey shore, a friend of mine was in the shorebreak scooping up jellyfish with his bear hands and tossing them onto the beach for the kids to play with. All of the other parents were telling their kids not to touch but our kids were picking them up and putting hundreds into a bucket. Before long there were about 20-30 kids all around out kids filling buckets with jellyfish gue. No one got stung the whole time and all of the jellyfish seemed to still be alive.