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  • Apr. 20th, 2008 at 2:28 PM
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It's been a gorgeous day for a walk. Sunny and clear, with a nice, crisp breeze. The bay and beach were quiet for a weekend afternoon, and there were a quesadilla and a Pacifico waiting at Rubio's.

But the best thing about the walk were the jellyfish! Alien creatures on the beach! I've been looking for them since we moved here, and finally they showed up! Jellyfish!





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Jellyfish - Mission Bay & Pacific Beach, April 2008

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[info]voidmonster wrote:
Apr. 20th, 2008 10:42 pm (UTC)
Oh cool! Moon jellies!

A couple years before you moved out here, there was an impressive infestation of jellyfish. We'd been having a really awful red tide (lasted for months) and then the cnidarians came. From the Oceanside pier one day, I counted over 100 in about 6 square feet of water. Not just little ones, either.
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(Anonymous) wrote:
Apr. 21st, 2008 12:01 am (UTC)
Cousin Ellen
How about the invasion of the squid that covered entire beaches? That was impressive too. They had such human-like eyes.
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[info]gregvaneekhout wrote:
Apr. 21st, 2008 03:49 pm (UTC)
Re: Cousin Ellen
Weird! Hope I get to see that sometime.
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[info]birdhousefrog wrote:
Apr. 21st, 2008 01:53 am (UTC)
poor little things without backbones! It can't be good for them to be on the beach in the sun like that.

Squid? Beach? Eyes? I would find that terribly disturbing.

Oz
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[info]bogwitch64 wrote:
Apr. 21st, 2008 02:27 am (UTC)
When we were in Bermuda, we saw these really cool creatures that looked like little sailboats on the water. So pretty. So nice. So deadly. They were Portugese Man-of-War babies! The beach actually hired some guys to scoop them out of the water and do away with them before they could sting the tourists!
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[info]orogeny wrote:
Apr. 21st, 2008 08:27 am (UTC)
Holy jeez! How big is that middle one? It looks huge. Like... basketball-size!
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[info]gregvaneekhout wrote:
Apr. 21st, 2008 03:49 pm (UTC)
The biggest ones were somewhere between a salad plate and a dinner plate, only you wouldn't want to heat off of them.
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[info]mythusmage wrote:
Apr. 21st, 2008 02:03 pm (UTC)
Greg, you do lead a sheltered life. :)

Wait till you get stung by one of them things.
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