Gratuitous Video Post

[revid]

It's amazing how much little stuff there is to catch up with when you've been gone for a while. At least the large stacks of paper and junk on the kitchen counter is shrinking.

I find no small irony in the fact that the only injury I received on my trip was a pulled muscle in my back, loading my suitcase into the trunk of my car coming home. I'm also highly annoyed by how hard is was to run 5 miles yesterday and how sore I was today after two weeks off.

And the real reason for this post. I had finished my safety stop and was headed towards the surface when this moon jelly appeared in front of me about 5 feet from the surface. They're pretty cool.

Comments

[mikeyface.livejournal.com]

I told you that you didn't miss much while you were gone, doll. :) But that's a cool video! :) I got stung by a jelly once, and dude. It burned like hell. :(

[mikeyface.livejournal.com]

Oh wait, I read that wrong. :p I thought you said that there was very little to catch up on, lol. I guess because I was gone a week too, I kind of gave up on catching up. I figure if there's anything noteworthy, it'll surface eventually. :p

[revid.livejournal.com]

Ha! You crack me up. But I totally agree with you.

I once had some Jelly tentacles brush against my leg during a dive. It itched like a son of a bitch for 2 weeks.

[mikeyface.livejournal.com]

Ewww. Yeah, seriously, it's not fun! ;p

[looking-spiffy.livejournal.com]

Moon jelly, to use a British term, shit me right up. I was on holiday (can't even remember where, possibly Greece?) when I was a kid, in the sea with The Mother, and then this moon jelly was RIGHTTHEFUCK next to me, within about a foot's distance. Having been told not to touch them because they sting you and it hurts like hell, I panicked and flailed my way right out of the water.

But they are pretty and I do like watching them. From a distance. When I'm out of the water. >.>

[canis-takahari.livejournal.com]

Considering how prevalent those things are in Greece, I AM NOT SURPRISED. D:

[looking-spiffy.livejournal.com]

I flailed EXACTLY LIKE THAT.

D:

[revid.livejournal.com]

That was 1 of only 2 I saw the whole trip. I was glad I was able to fumble with the camera quickly enough to get a few seconds of video, because they are so pretty to watch.

[seanlily.livejournal.com]

pretty

love the color of the water too

[revid.livejournal.com]

Thanks. The video only uses ambient light, which in this case, the dark makes it prettier.

[canis-takahari.livejournal.com]

AUGH JELLYFISH

That is seriously amazing, though, I love how they move. BUT ALL THOSE LITTLE HAIRS OH MY GOD, THEY STING. My cousin caught a tiny one in a plastic cup once and terrorized me with it. THE SMALL ONES HURT MOST.

[revid.livejournal.com]

Terrorized by a jelly in a cup? Hahahahaha! The do sting like crazy however.

Maybe I'll post my poisonous sea snake video next in my "Things That Can Hurt You" underwater video series. :-)

[my-own-beat-now.livejournal.com]

While I can admire the beauty and wonder of nature along with the next person, and that is definately a very cool vid, I have to agree with the majority of the comments and say.....ICK to jellyfish. Because I could never hack it under water :)

See, here's the thing - when I was younger (oh say.....about 13 I think) I took a trip out to Nova Scotia. We stayed at an absolutely beautiful little place, like you can only find in Nova Scotia (they only have beautiful little places there - that and rocks). The only not so cool thing, was that the beach and the ocean were alive with jellyfish. My cousin and I used to get this morbid joy out of walking the beach after the tide went out with big giant sticks, and picking up all the jellyfish that were left stranded in the sand and hurling them with our sticks against the rocks. We were teaching those babies a lesson! One they apparently didn't learn, as they kept stinging us when we swam. I guess we didn't show them quite like we thought.

The other random bit from that summer trip, was that somewhere along the very long car ride from Ontario, I picked up these earrings, made out of feathers - dyed blue and white. They pretty much touched my shoulders. I thought they were the coolest things ever. Not so much now when I look back at pictures :) Perhaps they were actually roach clips. I wasn't especially cool when I was 13. Not like now *snort*

[revid.livejournal.com]

Hahaha---seems like everyone has a childhood jelly horror story.

Roach clip earrings--I'm sure you could have been a centerfold for High Times magazine. :-)