so... i'm at work and don't really care to be. thought i'd make a random post to occupy my time.

i've been at peli point the past 2 days (1 underpowered, 1 overpowered, boo! ... will today be the day?) and have what look to be jellyfish stings on my legs. what the?!!? i thought the jellyfish in the river weren't supposed to sting!

i remember a tiny bit of stinging yesterday, but nothing like the pain i've felt from other jellyfish stings. and today the marks are still there and they kinda itch. seems like a sting to me...

so does anyone know which ones sting? i saw those big ugly brown ones, but i also saw a clear/whiteish one. i figured he must have been the culprit. he looked more clever than the brown ones...

There's probably so much toxic waste & fertiliser in the river that the brown ones have mutated into stingers.

I thought the brown ones didn't sting, but the white ones did?

Tracy - I didn't think you fell off?

Have a goodun .. Lozza

the white ones are easier to throw but harder to see

snides8

Aparently some jellyfish get other jellyfish tenticles caught up in there tenticles when they are out at sea, and the tenticles can sting you when they arent attached to the jellyfish... The big round white ones with hardly any tenticles dont sting ya... I also used to throw them around as a younger sailor

Haydz

I just looked at the graphs... I wish i didnt sleep in, omfg

Haydz

I'm no marine biologist but.....the Swan is a tidal river, salty nearly to the foothills when the fresh runoff is lightest. There are a huge range of salt water aquatic criters which sting for their food, many do not look like jellyfish. Take a snorkel practically anywhere ocean or river and watch the see-through critters swim or drift past on the current, all shapes and sizes. I imagine a tidal current (sea breeze assisted too) up a slow running river would be the taxi the critters catch. It's probably the time of year when they'd penetrate the furthest up the river. Their kind have probably been turning up there longer than the people! *OR* I heard somewhere recently that on days of strong easterlies the active swimming jelly stingers shelter near the shore and when the breese turns up they go out into deep water. So theoretically if there were a series of reasonable incoming tides (or tsunami echoes) during a period of strong easterlies, then maybe quite a few of the real stingers sheltering up close off fremantle harbour (or in the harbour)could get assisted by the summer afternoon incoming tidal current up the river.

It's all just theory and supposition!

We're balanced together ocean upon the sky.......NOT!
(It's a goal of mine you know, the ocean, the sky, the balance. Newbies gotta have goals you know!)
Airush Flow 12 '05 / Switch 150 '04.

for the first time in 12 months of windsurfing, the other day i got my big toe bitten by a crab at pelican point and it friggen' hurt it took a good chunk of skin i didnt stand on the bottom for the rest of the session i even did a water start in a foot of water

GONE WITH THE WIND

Hey Tracy!
I'm with you and Lesley! Those little white ones hunt you down!! Lesley is right, you have to get the slimey crap off or it keeps stinging. Are you heading to Leeman this weekend?? The forecast looks awesome!! Heaps of crew heading up so it should be good. Call me if you need a place to crash...Nic

i use to think i had boogers on my boom
HE SLIMMED ME!!!

GONE WITH THE WIND