Have you watched Gabriola’s jellyfish drift past, and maybe even seen the moon jellyfish in tidal pools at Whalebone and Sandwell? Have you wondered at them, and wished to know more? Off to the NYT, then, to read Much More to Jellyfish than Poison and Plasma. Fasacinating.
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At the end of a Gabriola summer, we often find dozens of jellyfish washed up, dead, on the beach. These are Lion’s Mane jellyfish — the kind you hope never to meet while you’re swimming in the sea. They’re dead already when we find them on the rocks at Whalebone, right? So I took out [...]
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Here’s one of the jellyfish I see around Gabriola quite a bit. It’s a clear jellyfish, with four pink sections inside. Last year I showed you the same kind of jellyfish floating in a tide pool at Whalebone. One of these days maybe I’ll figure out what it’s called.
I like to swim in the sea, and there are lots of good places to do that around Gabriola. I’ll admit, though, that I’m already creeped out by some of the things that are underneath the water. I can deal with salmon and little fishies brushing up against my toes, but the mere thought of [...]
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