Comments on: A Beautiful Day at the Beach–Finally!

By: beachhunter

beachhunter — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:11:30 +0000

Hi Andrea,
Thanks for being persistent in trying to comment on this. I believe you were trying to post earlier to my old blog and it wouldn’t publish your comment. I tried to intervene, but I couldn’t make it work either. That’s why I switched from the old Google Blogspot blog to this newfangled WordPress blog. Works much better!

Thanks again!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:27:25 +0000

Hi! I have seen many Mushroom jellies at St Pete Beach this year, still seeing them wash up on shore. I had never seen them here before in my 3 years here. Do they sting? And do you think it’s better to just leave them where they wash up, or should they be moved up further on the beach to dry out? Of course, if they don’t sting, it doesn’t matter. But tourists get so curious, they poke around (with fingers!), and that is quite unnerving… LOL What a wonderful place to live, I love the amount of beauty we have here and feel very fortunate!

By: beachhunter

beachhunter — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:04:39 +0000

Hi Pez,
Yes, the water was unusually cold this winter for an extended period of time. And you are definitely correct, Anna Maria does not usually have many jellyfish. But there have been quite a few this year (though nothing like what they are getting in Miami). The ones you saw might have been moon jellies. Have you had a look at my website pages with jellyfish photos? I’ve got some photos and video of moon jellies:
http://www.beachhunter.net/thingstoknow/jellyfish/index.htm

By: Pez

Pez — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:29:41 +0000

We have been coming down to visit my dad during our spring break
from Minnesota for 6 years now and have never really seen any jellyfish before. we were there 3-25 to 4-4-2010. Water was colder than I remember also. Iwas trying to look at pictures online
so I thought they were the Moon Jellyfish. They were only 4″ or so wide. But, I am from Minnesota…….
Still love Anna Maria though!

By: beachhunter

beachhunter — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:28:02 +0000

Thanks for the report Teresa. This seems to be a big year for jellyfish. Don’t usually see that many on Anna Maria.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:16:54 +0000

April 5, 2010 – while on Anna Maria Island, we ran across a huge mushroom cap jellyfish that was washing up on shore. Today (April 6), we saw even more of these jellyfish close to shore or washing up on the sand.

By: Suzanna

Suzanna — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:58:09 +0000

These are great! I saw a few surfers at Vilano Beach this weekend, but the surf wasn’t much and neither are my pictures! Your wipeout is better than mine :–).

By: Suwannee Refugee

Suwannee Refugee — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:29:39 +0000

I’m looking forward to the day that I get to go to the beach. Thanks for the taster.

By: beachhunter

beachhunter — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:00:11 +0000

I think that in order to truly “save” the jellyfish you’d have to take it 50 miles offshore. Otherwise it’s just going to drift back to the beach. Jellyfish are quite plentiful so I think there is probably no cause for interfering with nature like there is with sea turtles. Sometimes I carry live shells back to the shallow water when its obvious they’ve been stranded by an unusually high tide, but I have no way of knowing if that’s a good thing to do. Feels good anyway and I’m sure does no harm.

You can see more of my photos on my Picasa web albums here: http://picasaweb.google.com/davidmcree

By: Kim Jarvis

Kim Jarvis — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:29:27 +0000

Cool Pictures David. I always want to put the jellyfish back in the water but can never figure out how to do it without getting stung. I do throw the starfish back in when I see them on the beach.

I’d love to see some of your other albums too.