Re: [Paddlewise] Sun, wind, waves, and a jellyfish in my lap...

From: Wilky <carrot_at_vision.net.au>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 21:17:20 +1000
Decided to have a look on the web and found this
Cheers
Wilky
PS We have some thing similar we call a box jelly fish, well not where I am
but up towards Queensland.


The Lions Mane Jellyfish, most of us will have encountered these at some
point with their long trailing stinging tentacles (up to 3m) they can leave
a painful impression. The top dome is rather flat and usually has brown
markings, the edges form in to large lobes. There are four large arms
surrounding the mouth, these are much shorter than the tentacles. The
tentacles are arranged in eight bunches each containing over a hundred
tentacles, the older tentacles tend to be a dark red in colour, fragments of
tentacles retain their stinging power so beware of them caught on ropes etc.

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