Jellyfish

[crassy]

I live up in the Northern Suburbs and today I went swimming near Quinn's Rocks. There were a metric effload of jellyfish right near the shore. Being Canadian and ignorant of all the different species of things that can kill me here I was wondering if anyone in this community is well versed in types of jellyfish in the area. I have tried googling

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[voyageofdreams]

Did it look like this:

[crassy]

Is that the Australian spotted jellyfish? See, that picture looks close to what we saw but the other ones I saw online look nothing like it. Wikipedia also says they usually only hang out in the southern Pacific so I am very confused. The bottom part was a bit different as well, it was longer but no tentacles if that makes any sense.

[thisisthehabit]

The tentacles seem to get eaten off / broken off a lot. I think many of the ones we see in the Swan may be dead or dying.

[crassy]

I wasn't in the Swan I was in the ocean.

[slyyder]

Must be everywhere, I was down at the dog beach in South Beach Freo this morning and they were all in the water then. Down there was a lot of the plain/clear ones, with a few other types as well. Dont do the beach often enough to know much either, but there was still quite a few people and dogs in they water so they didnt seem overly concerned

[crassy]

Ya, I seemed to be the only person concerned with the fact that there were a bunch of jellyfish the size of my head chilling out right at the shoreline as well.

I am a bit freaked out because I was stung 2 weeks ago and I do not want to deal with that pain again.

[slyyder]

Yeah am not so keen on being stung either, or some of the suggested cures! I really dont hit the beach often enough to know much about them, assumed they werent dangerous as they didnt have the tentacles which I assume is where the sting comes from, but dont know, so just settled for walking with my friend and her dog along the beach instead lol

[crassy]

Yeah, I think the whole 'peeing on a jellyfish sting' is last resort. Vinegar is the way to go!

[doctor_k_]

The big ugly brown jelies don't sting - it's the small clear white jimbali that do.

[crassy]

They can sting but it is very mild.

occasionally they tickle

[thisisthehabit]

They can kind of tickle slightly, but that seems to be about it. I think they're as harmless as it gets.

I go windsurfing and sailing on the Swan river quite a bit, often with big brown jellyfish around. If I screw up windsurfing and come off the board I often land up putting my arm through a jellyfish or getting one in the face. It's gross and slimy, but harmless. They make the boom really *@# slippery, though...