Blue creatures at Curly??????

[kurtisb]

Just Wondering if anyone else saw the blue round things that were floating around the line up...if anyone knows what they are??

[daryl]

Try and see if they sting, look cuzzes to blueys

[heefcoate]

huh we have had no blue bottles here in newy this summer yet, by this time and the current winds and sea temp we should have heeps. any down in sydney?

[Revolution]

A month or so back i ran into some blueys at south narra, havnt been stung yet though.

At curly were the similar to bluey but with no stinger on the bottom? i.e. kinda look like a blue condom? Ive seen them before aswell. And no it wasnt a dom.

[kurtisb]

yer someone i talkt to said they were probably cousins to the bluebottle, they look fairly similar but without the bubble on top and the long stinger, instead they had a little round bubble which had tenticle like things stemming from that

[puurri]

yer someone i talkt to said they were probably cousins to the bluebottle, they look fairly similar but without the bubble on top and the long stinger, instead they had a little round bubble which had tenticle like things stemming from that

If they are a purplish colour with a darker cruciform on top they're frocking worse than any bottle. The wound blisters and takes abt 2 months to heal. Stay well away.

[steve shearer]

roughly oval with a thin translucent sail ?
small purple tentacles fringing the deep blue oval base?
Thats a "by the wind sailor" (vellela vellela), a pelagic hydroid (relative of jellyfish), common around the world.
Nematocysts that don;t affect human beings.
Does pose an interesting dilemma for vegetarians though.
The colonial nature of the "zooids" that make up the organism sort of straddle a weird realm between plant and animal.
At least one trial in Japan with "catostylus", a very common blue jelllyfish indicates very high levels of protein.
Human consumption is being considered.
Would vegetarians eat a jellyfish sausage?

[daryl]

It's round, the size of a 5c piece and looks like a small round jellyfish, except it's the exact colour of a bluey, and the dangly bits are short, at most a few cms. Washed up on the beach it has a blue tinged white centre, and a medium blue ring. Definitely tourists

[Revolution]

Its a shark!

Someone tell the news people so they can add it to the tally.

[Trev]

It's round, the size of a 5c piece and looks like a small round jellyfish, except it's the exact colour of a bluey, and the dangly bits are short, at most a few cms. Washed up on the beach it has a blue tinged white centre, and a medium blue ring. Definitely tourists

Blue ringed octopus.

[daryl]

It's round, the size of a 5c piece and looks like a small round jellyfish, except it's the exact colour of a bluey, and the dangly bits are short, at most a few cms.

Tom Tom's penis.

Female chimpanzees ... love human ... All 7cm.

[dunnc]

That's the third type of Bluey this summer, first there was the small sail type, then the regular Blueys, now these blue sunflower like things.
I reckon the sharks have released them so we will swim at the more protected areas making it far easier for them to herd us into tight groups in preparation for their final frenzy. They are all in on it - Whites, Hammers, tigers, even wobbegongs are going to strike this time around. No one is safe, no one.

[Buff_Brad]

It's round, the size of a 5c piece and looks like a small round jellyfish, except it's the exact colour of a bluey, and the dangly bits are short, at most a few cms.

Tom Tom's penis.

Ascertained by a cock-off at the last Realsurf dinner in the bathrooms where Dino was lurking.

Tom Tom won.

[Marine Jacket Spud]

Yep I saw a heap of them at Freshy the other day. Round, ranging from 10 to 20 cent pieces in diametre with tiny tenticles fanning out around the sides. (they were not long tenticles.)

They were not Blueys - although there have been a few of them around too. Oh and sharks - there has been a big one of those at Blueys! (not the jellyfish...)

There was a shrk at the Bower today too.

Save yourselves and stay out of the water!