Oliver Rhudy sent me these photos back on March 10, 2011. He wrote:
“I am currently stationed in Pensacola and on a recent trip to
Pensacola Beach, there were hundreds of Man-of-War washed up on the
beach. I did get stung by a couple on the ankle but did not get medical
attention. It was a pretty intense sting…”
I’ve been getting a number of reports of jellyfish washing up along the northern Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Galveston, Texas. I even had a report of purple sea snails from the Florida panhandle (Indian Pass – Port St. Joe area).
The onshore winds have been blowing them ashore along with other types of jellies.