Walking past the only family on the beach today who just happened to be our
neighbours on the campsite, one of the parents asked if I would like to look
at a strange creature that had just floated onto the beach. Amazingly it was a
Portuguese man o'war, a highly venomous jellyfish like creature which was
apparently still alive since it appeared to be moving.
They attempted to get it back in the sea but inevitably the waves kept
bringing it back to shore until eventually they gave up. Portuguese man o'war
is still a rare but increasing tide line stranding in the Hebrides. It was a
first for me.
There were plenty of jellyfish on the beach today, this is moon jellyfish.
Unsurprisingly this is blue jellyfish.
Crystal jellyfish, once a real rarity but it has become far more frequent these days. The first British record was apparently in the Moray Firth in 2009.
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