Jellyfish: Stingers or Blue Bottles(when Chris was first told about Blue bottles, he wondered what all the fuss was about; how annoying can flies be?)...well they are a rather spiteful little jelly fish which stings like a bee and the pain lasts for about 30 minutes!
When the life guards first announced there had been a few stings it took us about 20 minutes to pluck up the courage to go into the sea, as the risk was very minimal at that stage; we eventually reasoned that we don't stop going outside incase we get stung by a bee, do we?
Having just put a link in on here(click on blue bottles/highlighted at the top) I was surprised that the Blue Bottle is also called the Portuguese Man of War or 'Branman', in Danish! Why do they look so much bigger in Europe? These ones we saw were often only the size of a bee!
The sign looks dramatic and as more came in to shore , on the afternoon tide, the sign was moved forward and we were told there had suddenly been 15 stings in the last 5 minutes!!! At that point we decided we had enjoyed our beach outing but it was time to leave!
Just on another related theme of being stung.......we got a letter saying about another speeding fine...from a camera... as part of the same journey as the other one!!!!( I can't believe I v'e been stung twice!!! It's so unfair as I've been so good at sticking to the speed limits since!)
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