Jellyfish

[gregfountain]

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Here on the Washington coast, we see all sorts of sea life wash ashore. This evening there were lots and lots of Jellyfish. I'm fascinated with them. 

 

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Edited September 17, 2024 by gregfountain

[stuny]

Terrific.  Wonderful light & color.

[fotografr]

There's definitely a beauty to them. The glow is amazing. 

Any idea what caused them to wash ashore?

Edited September 17, 2024 by fotografr

[gregfountain]

34 minutes ago, fotografr said:

There's definitely a beauty to them. The glow is amazing. 

Any idea what caused them to wash ashore?

It's just the tide here Brent and lots of Jellies. Our tides this part of the year go from negative feet to 10 feet and it always brings something up that gets deposited on the beach. We've had whales, seals, jellies, including the sail jellies (thousands of them a couple of months ago), along with Japanese glass floats, ropes, huge tree trunks, etc. It's an interesting place

[stuny]

If the sail jellies were mostly blue with a bit of magenta at what looks like seams, they were Portugues-men-of-war.  No jellies are particularly good swimmers, and the sail jellies not at all.

[gregfountain]

17 hours ago, stuny said:

If the sail jellies were mostly blue with a bit of magenta at what looks like seams, they were Portugues-men-of-war.  No jellies are particularly good swimmers, and the sail jellies not at all.

Yeah, the sailors were a bluish color, very small and there were 10's of thousands on the beaches of Oregon and Washington. It was all over the news here as well. They float on the surface and their "sails" take them wherever the wind blows.