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SADONALD
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I was fishing at the old surfer pier at JP Luby once upon a time and I got wrapped up in a different man-o-war than a Portuguese....at least that is what the lifeguard on duty told me. I saw it after the fact and it was brownish, not blueish/purplish. The life guard said he saw it going my direction and he had a different name for it but I don't recall it anymore. Sound familiar to anyone? Still a man-o-war, just not Portuguese.
His 'medical' treatment of baking soda and peroxide worked wonders on me. |
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Donnie
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| SADONALD wrote: | I was fishing at the old surfer pier at JP Luby once upon a time and I got wrapped up in a different man-o-war than a Portuguese....at least that is what the lifeguard on duty told me. I saw it after the fact and it was brownish, not blueish/purplish. The life guard said he saw it going my direction and he had a different name for it but I don't recall it anymore. Sound familiar to anyone? Still a man-o-war, just not Portuguese.
His 'medical' treatment of baking soda and peroxide worked wonders on me. |
I never saw the jelly fish part of the creature, i did see the tentacle around my ankle - i thought it was seaweed, i peeled it away with my fingernails, fingers, nothing hurt there. Like I described before, the tentacle/seaweed looking thing - look like fine thread, and when I looked close at it, there was little beads or dots evenly spaced on this thread. Googling this up, i saw some pictures of the box jelly fish - the kind that is in our gulf - and the tentacle looked closest to what i saw on my ankle.
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Vern
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| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:42 pm Post subject: Pants, Pants, Pants |
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This is why I ALWAYS wear pants. Not just on the coast though.
I always wear pants in the water to prevent this. The question I have not found an answer to I will post in new thread.
I experienced the man of war thing 50 years ago and it still lives in my memory.
Was with cousins down on Galveston beach they were poking man or wars on the beach with a broken broom stick we found washed up, I was frustrated (being the youngest) they would not let me do it. Then we ate lunch and I finished first,,,,,,,, I ran out grabbed the stick and poked one then I took my big toe and tried to push off the slimey stuff  see where that went real quick. We all had to go home so they could call the doc.
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texastactical
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Location: Texas
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| About 30 some odd years ago I pulled a fiberglass camper down PINS and the entire beach had probably 100s of thousand Jellyfish littered all over the beach. When driving it sounded like popcorn. POP POP POP POP. When we got off the beach I went to a self car wash to rinse the camper. The high pressure spray from the wand caused lots and lots of the tentacles to hit my legs. it was not a fun ride home. |
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