Re: by-the-wind sailor

From: Alain Dumesny - Macromedia (alain@macromedia.com-DeleteThis.com)
Date: Sat Apr 13 2002 - 12:43:19 PDT 

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From: Alain Dumesny - Macromedia <alain@macromedia.com-DeleteThis.com>
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Good to know... I was wondering what those little shelly fish things
were... they do look like little boats made of plastic.

I ran into tons of them on the coast couple weeks ago, but they didn't look
the larger blue flat jelly fish that were reported on the news last night
making a stinck from dying on the beach near crissy. 

-- 
Alain Dumesny
UI Lead & Principal Engineer - Macromedia, Dreamweaver project

Bob Prevett wrote:
> 
> While sailing on the coast the other day, the surface of the water was
> covered with thousands of these little creatures that looked like tiny
> sailboats.  They were flat blue ovals that floated flat on water with a
> vertical clear sail sticking up along their centerline.  And they really did
> sail along the water with the wind, like a sailboat on a broad reach.
> 
> As a kid on vacation in Florida, I learned to not touch blue jellyfish
> looking creatures; Portuguese man-o-war pack quite a sting.  So, I tried not
> fall while in the fleets of those mini-sailboats.
> 
> I had never seen these things before; turns out they are a type of jellyfish
> called a "by-the-wind" sailor, "velella velella", that often get blown in
> from the open ocean by springtime winds.  And, it turns out that their sting
> is not poisonous to humans.
> 
> Bob
> 
> http://www.earthwindow.com/velella.html

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