September 24, 2004
Swept up on the beach
Does anyone know what these things are? They have been swept up a couple of times on our local beach, on the north coast, in the last couple of weeks. Is it possible they've deen dislodged by hurricane Ivan rough seas?
Posted by Eleutheria at September 24, 2004 04:52 PMthere was something about this in the Cornishman this week: they are jelly fish and were washed up on Sennen too (Sennen surf school had to be closed). There wasn't any information about where they had come from, though.
Posted by: eleutheria at September 28, 2004 06:17 PMThe Azores.
Posted by: Prof Yaffle at September 30, 2004 12:32 PMhow do you know, professor?
Posted by: eleutheria at October 1, 2004 10:14 AMBecause it says so in The Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/thisweek/story/0,,1315464,00.html
excellent - thanks prof! The local paper is pretty useless not to investigate it at all. No surprise it's in the Guardian (if anywhere), though; they are absolutely obsessed with Cornwall at the moment. We keep getting supplements with the saturday guardian saying how wonderful it is, how 'creative', how much money is being made, and grants handed out. There are even objective-one sponsered pop up windows on their website. All useful for when we sell the house, though
Posted by: eleutheria at October 1, 2004 06:17 PMthis is them. Each one is a colony rather than a single organism:
http://www.earthwindow.com/velella.html
Posted by: a marine biologist at October 2, 2004 12:23 PM