I'm not particularly fond of blue-bottles so it doesn't bother me overly much when I see them washed ashore. I have no doubt that they are a vital link of the food chain on some level but they're stingy little bastards and I can do without that sort of discomfort while enjoying a pleasant stroll at the seaside which, as you may have noticed, I do like to be beside.
Huh. There might be a song in there somewhere...
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I was under the impression you don't swim - so a blue-bottle shouldn't bother you much - I will agree though that they are stingy little bastards and this is spoken from experience - lovely PoV, DoF and all that palaver :)
Being the least imaginative and most literal one here, I guess, I was looking for a blue bottle and thought this was going to be an anti polluting the waters of the world type thing.
Nice shot. I like the way colour is creeping in at the bottom with the jelly fish blue and driftwood brown.
I am not familiar with this blue bottle, but I find our own blue bottles (flies) rather objectionable;, still, this one makes a good feature in your beach shot.
This was so interesting (for me anyway as I didn't know they were a jellyfish) - apparently sea lizards feed on the stinging cells for their own protection. You probably will disagree, but Google informs me they are rather beautiful in their own right. Fascinating!
Nice water splashes. You are lucky that your blue bottles are animals. Ours are plastic ones and their role in the food chain is to kill fish and sea turtles suffocating them.
@caterina Yes, we get those ones here as well... @pistache Thank you kindly...they are a nuisance @fbailey Good lord, every day is a school day ;) @suesmith Thank you very much :) @koalagardens Agreed ;) @helenhall It seems that it's just us antipodeans that call these blue bottles (as well as the flies...) @jacqbb We also have the flies but we have a habit of giving more than one thing the same name down here...economy of speech @happypat It is a jellyfish...but we also have the fly blue bottle as well, mainly because w love to confuse people. @joemuli Thanks very much :) @gardencat Thanks very much - I had my rant last week about litter ;) @shannejw That's because down here we call those jellyfish blue bottles. Confusingly, we also have the fly type of blue bottle as well...but then we do have a habit of giving the same name to several different things down here. But we all know what we mean..."chips" is a prime example as they can be hot chips or crisps
@30pics4jackiesdiamond Definitely the jelly fish... @annied I don;t swim but I will go in to a certain depth...and it must just be us antipodeans that call these blue bottles...
Nice shot. I like the way colour is creeping in at the bottom with the jelly fish blue and driftwood brown.
@pistache Thank you kindly...they are a nuisance
@fbailey Good lord, every day is a school day ;)
@suesmith Thank you very much :)
@koalagardens Agreed ;)
@helenhall It seems that it's just us antipodeans that call these blue bottles (as well as the flies...)
@jacqbb We also have the flies but we have a habit of giving more than one thing the same name down here...economy of speech
@happypat It is a jellyfish...but we also have the fly blue bottle as well, mainly because w love to confuse people.
@joemuli Thanks very much :)
@gardencat Thanks very much - I had my rant last week about litter ;)
@shannejw That's because down here we call those jellyfish blue bottles. Confusingly, we also have the fly type of blue bottle as well...but then we do have a habit of giving the same name to several different things down here. But we all know what we mean..."chips" is a prime example as they can be hot chips or crisps
@annied I don;t swim but I will go in to a certain depth...and it must just be us antipodeans that call these blue bottles...
@golftragic That's a releif - I was starting to think I had the name wrong ;)
@kwind Thank you kindly :)
Great shot.