Tuesday, October 19, 2010

A visitor at our dock.

 This is a Lion's Mane Jellyfish we spotted next to our dock this morning. We normally see them a dark reddish brown colour, so this was an unusual sight for us. The bell on this jelly is about 18" across and the tentacles were probably about 10-12 feet long. I would have liked to get a picture of this one from in the water, that would have been very cool. This jellyfish can give a nasty sting, but not life threatening.

2 comments:

Pat Shaughnessy said...

That is one big jelly fish. Beautiful!

Foster Fanning said...

Greetings from S/V Aquila. Really enjoying your blog. Linked it into mine new sailing blog at http://fosterfanningaquila.blogspot.com/
Fair winds