jellyfish

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are they bad in the rivers yet? Too bad to swim? Kids want to go, but heard they are getting bad.
thanks,

B.O.A.T. Bust Out Another Thousand!

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Daughter and her friend got a couple of stings last year at Edisto, but I’ve not heard of anyone getting stung lately. Funny thing for me, I’ve never been stung once in S.C. by a jellyfish. I used to spend many hours swimming in our coastal waters and still spend some. Only time was some itty bitty ones in the Bahamas that got me while snorkeling.

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Apparently IOP was covered up in them the other day…
https://abcnews4.com/news/local/213-jellyfish-stings-reported-on-isle-of-palms-saturday-by-3-pm

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quote:
Originally posted by Moral Kiosk

Apparently IOP was covered up in them the other day…
https://abcnews4.com/news/local/213-jellyfish-stings-reported-on-isle-of-palms-saturday-by-3-pm

Good gracious! 213 stings in one day, at one beach?

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They picture a harmless cannonball jelly -

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Nature boy, look again. Tentacles (sp?) are gone, but that looks like the real thing. Pretty sure it’s not a cannonball.

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Your spelling was good. I expanded the photo - its a cannonball. They turn clear when they die out of the water. They don’t have much in the way of tentacles. A man of war is a pretty blue color, and small, but incredibly painful.