Jellyfish

[squirmelia]

[Poll #1445986]

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[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Sorry for deleting your comment editor. I deleted that post, as I changed the poll slightly.

What do jellied eels taste like?

[nja.livejournal.com]

I would probably have seen more if I had grown up by a coast where the sea wasn't brown. Plenty on beaches elsewhere, though. I wouldn't say "many" because they aren't as common as herring gulls or limpets.

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

When I was little, my first trip on the Isle of Wight ferry was made more memorable by hundreds of moon jellies bobbing in the wake. We found two Lion's Mane jellyfish at Lyme Regis on one childhood holiday too, and they are VAST.

When we went to Sark this year there were lots washing up on the beach and drifting around in rock-pools. Not sure what they were, they were pretty small, but not your usual moon jellies.

Round the Med there seem to be lots more though: we saw hundreds of by-the-wind-sailors on a field trip to Zahara de Los Atunes.

[flavius-m.livejournal.com]

Many, many times back home (Venezuela, north coast of S. America on the Caribbean), but never here.

In Scotland

[angryangeltoo.livejournal.com]

On the Isle of Mull loads has washed up on Calgary beach.

[commlal.livejournal.com]

Every time there was a big storm at home, loads would wash up. Seen a fair few in the sea too. Once watched one the size of a dustbin lid swimming around Ardrishig pier on day.

[psych0naut.livejournal.com]

I never saw a live jellyfish until I went to the Kiel on the North Sea in 2004. There were so many giant purple ones in the water there that it was difficult to wade or swim without touching them. Not that it really mattered, though, as they had no discernible sting; they could even be picked up and handled. I estimate the bells were around 20 centimetres in diameter, and that they weighed around two kilograms.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

When we were in Northern Ireland, we went to Helen's Bay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen%27s_Bay). After being enthused about seeing Eider ducks in the wild for the first time (which left Colin, who grew up in NI rather bemused), and general seaside happiness, we suddenly looked down and noticed that the whole beach was covered in tiny jelly fish.

[tlrmx.org (from livejournal.com)]

I don't remember. Well, definitely not in the sea. I was kind of scared of the sea when I was a kid. I'd paddle in it, but I wouldn't swim.

But on a beach? Maybe. I cannot recall.

[shermarama]

I've spent quite a lot of this year scuba diving round the UK and I see lots of jellyfish. They're often quite close to the surface, certainly in the top 10m; sometimes when you do a three minute safety stop at 5m, there's one or two hanging around.

The ones I see are mostly the blue ones. There was a beach in the Scillies where we kept loading and unloading our cylinders, and the day after some nasty weather, there were dozens of blue blobs washed up on the beach. It was quite difficult to walk across it without stepping on one.

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

One, to be precise. This one:

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/ruudboy/1109305966/)

[damerell.livejournal.com]

One particular year when we went to Coll (in the Hebrides) the beaches were covered with jellyfish.

so tempted to click never been to the UK :P

[bickichick.livejournal.com]

saw a few huge jelly fish while on ferry from Vancouver Island to Salt Spring Island they were massive

[tsuki-chama.livejournal.com]

A few wash up in Bournemouth each year, and I've been swimming with a friend when he got stung - I've escaped so far though!

About 7-8 years ago there was a massive one, whitish-blue and about 20 feet long with its tentacles. The tourist crowd were pretty freaked out!

[bickichick.livejournal.com]

apparently jelly fish are a plankton they have no brain and stuff so as the dude on tv- it was a big oooh let's all eat jelly fish now it's the wonder food- said vegetarains can eat tehm I;m not gonna try it it's a jelly f-i-s-h hello people & poisionous.

[psych0naut.livejournal.com]

Jellyfish aren't fish, at least not in the same sense as cod, trout, and sharks are. And many of them aren't poisonous. They're actually a very popular food in Asian cuisine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish#Culinary_uses). So yeah, if you're a vegetarian just because you don't want to eat animals with brains, then you can definitely eat jellyfish.