Newbie5 said...Beersy said...
Are you sure it was a stingray? Stingrays usually pierce you with their barb. Big open wound. Possibly something else. The photo just looks like a bruise.
Maybe something else, you could be right.
I thought it was a stingray because I was flat footed (not moving) when I was stung on top of my foot (in the vain, just my luck). The other reason I thought it was a stingray because the doc said she had a lady come in the other day with the same bite mark (from StKilda) who said it was a stingray.
Very odd to be done by a Stingray if you weren't moving - normal way of getting stung is by standing on top of them.... although I only really have experience of stingrays in the US, not the local ones.... Also agree - the Stingray strikes I've seen usually have a pretty serious puncture wound associated with 'em - a mate had one go clean through his knee (in one side and out the other, going through sideways) - and missed just about everything of any importance. That was a big one that he accidentally kneeled down on whilst scuba diving in Egypt (it was under a layer of sand).
Anyone remember that girl who got stung in Port Melbourne a couple of years ago and ran screaming from the water thinking that she was going to die? Made it to the front page of The Age / Herald Sun.
I guess they are a bit like snakes, make alot of noise and they will 99% of the time get out of your way if they can.
[EDIT] - yes - in Florida there are signs everywhere encouraging people to do the "Stingray Shuffle" if they are walking in the water - basically slide your feet along the bottom so that you'll nudge the stingray rather than stand on it and it'll swim off
) & we have seen quite a few small stingrays about
