Behold the "Pink Meanie."
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| (Attaching a radio transponder. To a jelly fish!) |
It's a jelly fish. A jelly fish large enough to be tagged. They grow over 3 feet in diameter with tentacles over 100 feet long. And they're suddenly all throughout our coastal water.
Again.
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| (Pink Meanie way too close to shore) |
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| (Supposedly yummy Blue Moons) |
Hundreds of them have been spotted in the Gulf. Apparently, they "blossom" in response to the presence in the water of their favorite food, the much smaller but even more stingier "Blue Moon" jelly which they eat literally by the dozens at a time.
There's been a bloom of Blue Moons this summer and so the Pink Meanies, which otherwise exist as inconspicuous bottom feeding polyps, have responded for the first time in about five years.
Between these guys and the
lion fish, I'm surprised we get any tourists at all.
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