Latest reports from the front indicate that the great jellyfish invasion, although receding, is still far from gone. (See WHAT A SHOCKER – WHO NEEDS JAWS! Blog 04 Nov.)
I’ve been without my regular sea-swim fix, at Gyllyngvase Beach on Falmouth’s seafront, for more than a week now and the withdrawal symptoms are setting in alarmingly, I tell you.
On Friday, as I checked with a swimmer just leaving the water, the “mauve stingers” were thinning out but were still there in small clumps – and he had duly been stung several times.
This morning, I sidled up to another fellow swimmer, still in her dry robe, having decided not to go in, and she told me that a gentleman had just tried his luck but got no further than knee depth before he was surrounded by them.
Hopes had risen, with winds now that much more south-ish, rather from the east/south east, which seems to be the direction most likely to drive the little blighters in.
This is getting serious. And I’ve yet to meet any long-term regular who can recall a precedent – and in November of all months!
The normal form is for the jellies to spoil things - albeit not this variety and in nowhere near such numbers - when the sea warms up a bit for a few short weeks at the height of summer.
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