I had my first sea-swim of the season this morning. A week earlier than last year, but nearly two weeks later than in 2019. Other than sharing my swim with several comb jellies that were still lurking near the surface at the early hour (they usually return to the sea bed in the morning), I haven't got very much to say, so I'll just leave the handful of photos that I took and their captions.
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| Not a shooting star over the End-of-the-Line... |
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| Groyne! |
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| Cormorant! |
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| This small comb jelly - a sea gooseberry (Pleurobrachia pileus) - got washed up by a wave. |
| Don't worry, I put it back in the sea |
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| Another wobbly, almost see-through creature also got washed up on the beach... |
| Hardly Deborah Kerr/Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity, is it?! |
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| Seen through the wild flowers, a Common Blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus) |
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| Bee orchid (Ophrys apifera) |
Sniff sniff tail-wag!
ReplyDeleteI love the jelly fish.
Eventhough it's not actually a jellyfish (thank you, Jon)?
Delete(I should have read the Wiki article properly, otherwise this post would be titled "Swimming with ctenophores"...)
I don't think Deborah Kerr was renowned for her hairy legs...
ReplyDeleteJellyfish! I wouldn't necessarily want to swim with them - they sting! However, I looked up the "Sea Gooseberry" and it's apparently not actually a jellyfish, but a ctenophore. However that's pronounced. Jx
Fortunately, ctenophores like this one don't have stinging cells - they have some sort of glue instead. I could have walked out of the sea covered in the little blobs - all regrets about allowing No Mow May to bleed into June forgotten...
DeleteI am not saying anything about being covered in blobs. Nothing at all.
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Against my better judgment, I clicked the link. And it was worse than I thought!
DeleteThose two common tarts pumping away on the pink plastic penises ruined any expectations of obscene filth.
Sadly, the jellies most likely on my local beach are of a nasty kind.Nasty enough for the Life Guards to put up the "beach closed" sign.But up in the waters around Palau (Phillipines) there are benign jellies that crowd the waters in some tourist spots.
ReplyDeletePortuguese Man o' War? I think the worst we have to contend with are lion's mane jellyfish.
DeleteNo, I think the little Irukandji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irukandji_jellyfish are our worst.
DeleteCrikey! I'd never go in the sea again!
DeleteI thought that sea gooseberry was someone's beachwrecked breast implant.
ReplyDeleteYou're wearing GREEN SHORTS!
That breast implant would have to have come from someone quite small. Small enough that even Ms Scarlet would tower over them!
DeleteSpeaking of whom (and I'm sure her ears are burning what with mention of Green Shorts)...
I agree with Mistress MJ - breast implant!!!
ReplyDeleteApologies, too much sun yesterday. Am now more addled than usual.
Sx
But what happened to the other one???
DeleteIf you got lucky on the beach, you could use that sea creature as an emergency lubricant.
ReplyDeletePerhaps if I meet the cutie from the previous post again...?
DeleteI believe we call that "sea snot" here. I know most things by their vulgar names being the hillbilly that I am, but then ...
ReplyDeletetempted by the delights of another sliver image of Mister IDV. My other side, the high class trollup, adores delayed gratification and peekaboos. Letting everything "all hang out" is rather boring.
Lovely butterfly. I like how its outline in a delicate light color.
A sliver is all I'm showing otherwise it won't be sea snot (gross, btw*), but sea sick!
Delete* However, when I was much younger, my sister and I named a green berry producing vine that grew as a weed in our garden "snot berries"...
Fab photos Love the blue butterflies and orchid and am fascinated by jelly fish
ReplyDeletebut have never seen a ctenophore which is just as well as I wouldn't be able to tell anyone as I wouldn't be able to pronounce it.
Those little blue butterflies are so flighty and fast that they're a bugger to capture with Camera. But they are very pretty, so all the chasing is worth it.
DeleteFortunately, I doubt you'll come across ctenophores in Wood Green...