Is jellyfish?
Here’s what we found in a tide pool at Whalebone yesterday: a transparent jellyfish thing with pink innards. I’d love to know what it is.
Update: Today’s Gabriola jellyfish – 10 Aug 2010
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6 Responses to “Is jellyfish?”
Andrea on 06 Jun 2009 at 10:04 am #
It’s a jellyfish but I don’t know the west coast ones well enough to recognize them from a photo.
Since you spend a lot of time in the woods, I wanted to ask you, how bad are the biting bugs on Gabriola in the summer? I was there in May and there were none, but by the time I got home (east coast) the blackflies were in full force and the mosquitoes and no-see-ums were starting up. Does this happy bug-free status continue on the island?
Gabriolan on 06 Jun 2009 at 10:51 am #
People who’ve lived elsewhere tell me that we’ve got it easy here as far as bugs go. I try to remember that as I count the 27 mosquito bites I got in one afternoon.
Mosquitoes leave my beloved alone, for the most part. But me? They think I’m a gourmet meal, so I get lots of bites.
So, bug-free? Not so much, but the bugs here probably aren’t as bad as the bugs you’re dealing with.
Annah on 06 Jun 2009 at 5:49 pm #
You probably have so many bites because you are always in the woods, and thats mosquito heaven…
Gabriolan on 06 Jun 2009 at 8:00 pm #
Annah, if 12 people are sitting around on the deck, I’m the one who will get the most mosquito bites, so I think it’s more than being in the woods – alas! When I’m in the woods I try to make sure that I’m all covered up except for my face and hands.
cheryl on 07 Jun 2009 at 3:40 pm #
I looked at over 300 pictures of jellyfish on the net and the closest that game to your jellyfish was the moon jellyfish. Though yours looks like a star in the center and the moon has four pink loops. I’m thinking it may because it’s laying flat on the sand. Sorry I couldn’t come any closer to finding yours. My eyes started to see double after looking at so many pictures.
Gabriolan on 07 Jun 2009 at 6:02 pm #
Thanks, Cheryl! That’s awfully sweet of you to do all that hunting around. I’ll go look at some moon jellyfish photos and see if any look like the jellyfish I saw.