Wild Moon Jellies

[urbpan]

Yes, visitors to the Boston waterfront need only look down into the Harbor to see marine wildlife. When we recently visted, not only did we see many moon jellies, but also a three foot long fish of some kind (dunno what kind). I don't have a picture of the fish (which made the mallards up on the Harbor surface quite nervous) but I do have these shots of our urban jellies.







The harbor has been cleaned up quite a bit in recent years (in the late 80's, no less an authority on filth than John Lydon [formerly Johnny Rotten] called it "an open sewer"), but not as much as those pictures seem to indicate. I cleaned up the harbor in photoshop so that you could see the animal better. Here's the un-retouched version of the first picture:



cross-posted to invertebrates, why not?

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/purplebunnie_/]

Beautiful

I tried to find you a website of our annual "by the wind sailor" jellyfish that blanket Samoa and other beaches around here. They're goregous creatures. I don't belive these are local photos, but they share the idea
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/By-the-wind-sailor-2_ST.jpg
and
http://www.somersetbirder.fsnet.co.uk/by-the-wind-sailors2.jpg
http://www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/images/digital/velellastranding.jpg

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

That is a gorgeous animal. "Samoa and other beaches around here"? Are you not in Eureka California anymore, or is Samoa the name of a California beach?

[http://users.livejournal.com/purplebunnie_/]

Samoa is a Eurekain (sp?) beach. We've got a few with semi-famous names, including Moonstone and Agate.