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Physalia physalis
Hundreds of these were washed up on Yaroomba beach this afternoon. The tentacles are venomous, so walking on the beach was like running a gauntlet. Some of the stingers were up to 2 metres long, such as the one in shot 4. This lot were quite colourful - some had pink spines, and some had green tips. The bluebottle is not a jellyfish but a siphonophore, which is not actually a single creature, but a colonial organism made up of many minute individuals called zooids.
Spotted on Nov 3, 2012
Submitted on Nov 3, 2012
3 Comments
Kindof sad they got washed-up on shore. Beautiful.
great photos
Nice images and description. Reminds me of when I was a child, living in Hawaii.