jfm
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Yes indeed! I can't count, doh. Yes, I should have said my third sentence:encouragement:And then your third sentence, which is where the definition is
Sardinia in October (with vids)
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AndieMac
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You certainly know how to get the most out of a photographic moment SM, some nice additional still shots of the island.
The cave swim was a standout for me, my son and I had a fantastic experience both inside and underwater, although being very conscious of our skipper manoeuvring the boat outside in windy onshore conditions in a rocky bay, awaiting our return.
The cave swim was a standout for me, my son and I had a fantastic experience both inside and underwater, although being very conscious of our skipper manoeuvring the boat outside in windy onshore conditions in a rocky bay, awaiting our return.
scubaman
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It really was fantastic. There were a few jellyfish when I was there, got mildly stung by one, but the caves were amazing. And the visibility almost gives you vertigo
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AndieMac
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It really was fantastic. There were a few jellyfish when I was there, got mildly stung by one, but the caves were amazing. And the visibility almost gives you vertigo
I don't think I would have noticed anything stinging me, my adrenaline was pumping so hard
A young Italian guy followed us into the caves from a charter yacht thinking we were also Italian (we had just jumped in from P's boat flying the flag), but after saying buongiorno.....I couldn't fool him any more
MapisM
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Doh! You did mention to have seen some around, but can't for the life of me remember this...
...let me think that you didn't tell me, rather than put another nail in the coffin of my memory!
Either ways, I hope it wasn't too bad to spoil the experience. :encouragement:
MapisM
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No worries C, that's already above my knowledge of Finnish, for instance!after saying buongiorno.....I couldn't fool him any more
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scubaman
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Doh! You did mention to have seen some around, but can't for the life of me remember this...
...let me think that you didn't tell me, rather than put another nail in the coffin of my memory!
Either ways, I hope it wasn't too bad to spoil the experience. :encouragement:
I might not have mentioned it as you were helming the boat away from the caves as I was getting out of the wetsuit. There's nothing wrong with your memory
.It didn't spoil the experience in the slightest. The caves were amazing.
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scubaman
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I don't think I would have noticed anything stinging me, my adrenaline was pumping so hard
A young Italian guy followed us into the caves from a charter yacht thinking we were also Italian (we had just jumped in from P's boat flying the flag), but after saying buongiorno.....I couldn't fool him any more
That's pretty good going. I usually fail at the first hurdle before opening my mouth
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Deleted User YDKXO
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We've seen jellyfish in the Mezzaluna caves on a couple of occasions this season. Not large ones but large enough to make you look very carefully where you're swimming. FWIW I think they probably get pushed into the caves if there is any wind with a westerly component
scubaman
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I have very limited first hand experience of jellyfish but on this occasion it wasn't a big problem. A red patch maybe couple of cm's wide and a roughly 10 cm long whip mark which I thought came from catching a tentacle.
I have no idea what sort of burns jellyfish in that area typically cause.
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Oddly enough we didn't want to find out!
MapisM
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Yep, and what is rather peculiar of those caves is that they are so deep inside the rocks that the jellifish get stuck after the wind blows them inside.
So, it can take days after the wind calms down, before they eventually find their way out.
In most other places, the jellyfish situation can change pretty rapidly. You might remember that day when MYAG anchored in Cala Vinagra for the night (with his usual style!
): upon arrival, there were several jellyfish around, and you decided not to stop for a swim and return to CF (later, we joined you and Hurricane for dinner, testing the Novurania in a somewhat unexpected NE blow).Now, the morning after, we swam in the very same bay, with ZERO jellyfish in sight. Completely disappeared.
Sure enough, that couldn't have happened in Mezzaluna.
Oh, and just for the records, I'm attaching a couple of pics.
The first is actually a thing of beauty, even nicer when seen in flesh, but pretty rare - I usually spot one or two of them in a whole summer, if that.
No idea about whether it stings or not, and never heard of anyone stung by one of those, probably just because they are rather big (6 to 8 inches) and very colourful, therefore easily visible.
The second is the most common, and it does sting a bit. That's surely the one Scubaman experienced first hand. It's normally much smaller (2 to 3" diameter), not very visible, and they often float right on the surface, which is not a direction you usually look at while snorkeling, because you tend to look towards the bottom.
These are the reasons why they are more annoying: very easy to avoid them when you see them (they move around veeery slowly), but sometimes you just miss them - not to mention if you are swimming without a mask, obviously. But that ain't a problem, because in most places it's well worth using a mask when swimming around anyway!
On the bright side, I understand that jellyfish can't stand any polluted water, so I guess we can't blame them for liking to swim in the same kind of sea as we do....
MapisM
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Fwiw, I never heard of anything worse than the type of burn you are mentioning. It's often even smaller, or sometimes a bit larger, but not much.
I suppose that the small size of the things is in itself an assurance that they can't be really dangerous - let alone deadly, as can happen along the Queensland coast, according to what I've been told down under!
Btw, it's not like getting stung is so frequent, mind: neither myself nor swmbo have ever been caught (having just passed our 10th season down there, no less!).
Anyway, as I was told, rubbing ASAP the body part with some sand or a rough duster, and then rinsing well with fresh water, is a very simple but effective cure.
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Wow I've never seen one of those. Yes its rather beautiful
Yes those are common throughout the W Med. I have seen those in the Baldricks and SoF. Not sure those are what we have seen in Mezzaluna because those ones had much thinner tentacles
Actually I thought the opposite, not that I know anything about jellyfish! During our travels in the W Med, we found the most jellyfish in the Baldricks and SoF which we put down to pollution. We never saw a single jellyfish in Croatia (although I'm sure they are there judging by reports) and I don't remember seeing any in NE Sardinia. Maybe with the water temp being a bit lower in these areas that makes a difference. I have also heard that jellyfish only have 1 natural predator and that is the turtle, the numbers of which are being depleted by overfishingOn the bright side, I understand that jellyfish can't stand any polluted water, so I guess we can't blame them for liking to swim in the same kind of sea as we do....
MapisM
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Actually, I believe that the very same animal has both the thick, short tentacles which you can see in the above pic, and also some very thin filaments, much longer (up to half a meter or so) and barely visible - in fact you can't see them in the above pic (whose quality is rather poor, being a snapshot of a video), but I'm pretty sure that they must have been there.
Re. pollution, temperature etc., you seem to know better than myself! Must admit that I never found the subject interesting enough to study it in detail...
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Re. pollution, temperature etc., you seem to know better than myself! Must admit that I never found the subject interesting enough to study it in detail...
Nor me but the SWMBO has an enquiring mind. We were once moored to a buoy in the Porquerolles in SoF on our Targa 48 surrounded by jellyfish and to entertain our son she fished a few different ones out of the water with a net and dumped them on our bathing platform for inspection. I didn't think this was a good idea but as you know with my SWMBO, arguing with her is pointless. Having finished her disection lesson, she flushed the jellyfish off our bathing platform with a bucket or two of seawater. I suggested that perhaps she needed more than just a bucket or two but she ignored me.
Next day we were still moored in the same place generally doing nothing when I heard her scream. She had decided it was a good idea to sit on the bathing platform dangling her feet in the water and had been stung on her backside by the remnants of the jellyfish she'd left on the platform from the day before. Laugh, I nearly pissed myself! Actually her backside was covered in a couple of nasty burns and she couldn't sit down very well for a few days after that. I think she learnt to keep well away from jellyfish after that
AndieMac
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Fwiw, I never heard of anything worse than the type of burn you are mentioning. It's often even smaller, or sometimes a bit larger, but not much.
I suppose that the small size of the things is in itself an assurance that they can't be really dangerous - let alone deadly, as can happen along the Queensland coast, according to what I've been told down under!
Anyway, as I was told, rubbing ASAP the body part with some sand or a rough duster, and then rinsing well with fresh water, is a very simple but effective cure.
Those nasty Queensland jellies are usually quite tiny with very long narrow tentacles, the stings are treated with white vinegar. All the charter boats around the Whitsundays have large containers of vinegar aboard.
