Great video! I was hoping you were going to show my hut at Hipkins beach so I'd know it was ok after the storm! 😁 Apparently this is the time of year & stormy weather that can bring jellyfish in. There have been quite a few Portuguese men o war found on the West coast. I did see one once at Walton back in the 70's, we used to get porpoises off there then too, I've not seen them for probably 45 years....😕
Thank you! I unfortunately didn’t head down by the beach huts on this occasion but I really hope it’s okay! I remember when I lived in Wales we’d get a for Man o War, never seen one here though.
@@NatureScopeYT Thank you for your reply. I think the guys down there would have told me of any problems hopefully. 👍 Yes "Men o War" most prevalent on the Atlantic coast &, as I say, normally after storms. Not to be messed with or stung by though. I came very close to that happening in the Canneries. I'd been free diving with dolphins along a cliff that plunged hundreds of feet under a very clear blue sea. I'd looked down & saw something VERY big 100 odd feet down that wasn't a dolphin so signalled for the local guy in the inflatable to pick me up. He laughed at my report & then pointed to a shape that wasn't 50' from us which was a Man o War & cheerfully said - _"That might have killed you though!"_ 😮😕
A "Neptunia contraria" is l think the shell. So nice.
Thanks so much! They’re stunning, never found one that big down there. Shame about the hole in it but it’s gone straight into my collection 😁
Great video!
I was hoping you were going to show my hut at Hipkins beach so I'd know it was ok after the storm! 😁
Apparently this is the time of year & stormy weather that can bring jellyfish in. There have been quite a few Portuguese men o war found on the West coast.
I did see one once at Walton back in the 70's, we used to get porpoises off there then too, I've not seen them for probably 45 years....😕
Thank you! I unfortunately didn’t head down by the beach huts on this occasion but I really hope it’s okay! I remember when I lived in Wales we’d get a for Man o War, never seen one here though.
@@NatureScopeYT
Thank you for your reply.
I think the guys down there would have told me of any problems hopefully. 👍
Yes "Men o War" most prevalent on the Atlantic coast &, as I say, normally after storms.
Not to be messed with or stung by though. I came very close to that happening in the Canneries. I'd been free diving with dolphins along a cliff that plunged hundreds of feet under a very clear blue sea.
I'd looked down & saw something VERY big 100 odd feet down that wasn't a dolphin so signalled for the local guy in the inflatable to pick me up. He laughed at my report & then pointed to a shape that wasn't 50' from us which was a Man o War & cheerfully said - _"That might have killed you though!"_ 😮😕
A lucky escape! I dread to think how painful it must be 😣
Frost fish I think the fist dead thing is
Hey, not here in the UK unfortunately we don’t get them. It’s a thornback ray.
That's a partial Thornback Ray skeleton ;)
Thank you! I did think so which is why I pointed out the spines, but I wasn’t 100%! Glad to have clarity 😁
The lobster claw is actually a velvet swimming crab claw there also blue😊
Ah of course! Great point 🦀