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July 30, 2009 (Thursday)
Post-session
Again I thought it was slightly bigger, but everyone else thought not. For sure it was windy and sloppy and frequently barely ride-able. New swell tonight?
Afterward one of the regulars and I were walking back to our cars from the beach, and he mentioned this in passing: Irukandji jellyfish. I had never heard of it. We had been talking about getting bitten in the water; you know, those irritating little bites you get that almost border on an itch. We've all experienced them some time or other while surfing (in Hawaii--I don't know about other locales). And then I said they were water fleas, which is a term I've heard bandied about by others as the perpetrators in such situations. What are they, anyway? If you read the descriptions of the water flea it doesn't seem to fit.
Posted at 7:14 PM