Jellyfish sting
Posted on 07/30/2005 6:12:25 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Jellyfish sting
And if the ocean should unexpectedly recede in a big way, run like hell in the opposite direction...
I know what you mean.
Okay now you did it.
We demand better pictures of your wife's boobs.
I'm in North Dakota now. I remember clearing them out of haul seines, Phike (sp?) Nets, Gill Nets, and Crabpots.
Miserable critters, especially after someone experimented with some chemicals in Chaptico Bay and wiped out the millfoil which kept them offshore.
Once that vegetation was gone, there was nothing to keep them off the beach (that is a smell I will never forget).
" fire residue and superheated sand can severely burn bare feet -- use a barbecue that is elevated off the sand"
And the coals stay lit for a very long time too!
I dug a firepit in beach sand and lit a bag of charcoal around 11pm one night and cooked some steaks. Before going to bed I covered up the pit with sand. At 6:00pm the next day I dug out the pit to light a new fire and found live coals from the previous night's bag of charcoal.
I think a lot of people were educated recently.
Amazing.
We always preferred to swim in lakes and fortunately they were also plentiful.
Just don't like the combination of salt, sand, and stinging jellyfish.
LOL!
The worst thing that can happen around here is you get bitten by a blue crab
Thanks for the compliment but I got it from the Georgetown Times.
I thought it was well written.
Yes, the rip currents are deadly and don't need to be if you know how to swim out of them.
Your beaches have been discovered!
10th generation! That's something.
Kidding accepted.
Here in the land of ten thousand taxes we have what
the old timers called burn nettles.. I do not know the
real name of the plant, but nasty as heck. We used railroad
gloves to pull them out, cause if you touched them the
burning,swelling and itching was horrible. They also blend
in very well with other plants and weeds.
Use your imagination.
Actually not that uncommon, or at least wasn't until the last 30 years around here.
You consider this information a "safety tip"?
Okaaaay.
And, by the way, for a warm coat or umbrella, all I would really have to do is open a window to find out if it's cold, or look at the raindrops on the window pane to know if I needed an umbrella.
But, then, I DON'T rely on the weatherpeople to know for sure, either. They have been known to be wrong. That doesn't annoy me, either. That is such OLD, OLD news, the weather forecast being wrong, that I take it in stride.
Imagine how we survived without T.V. telling us all this information and warning us about such common sense things. How DID we survive?
Lol. We DID have the old folks to tell us when it was going to rain -- they always felt it in their joints.
And, of course, there was (and still is) always the Farmer's Almanac...you remember, the one with the hole in the upper left hand corner? :o)
That never happened to me, but I can understand that it would be terrifying.
The worst thing that happened to me was in a stream in Wisconsin. It was a place people went to go tubing and cool off.
I was swimming back upstream underwater and someone jumped off the bank and landed square on my back. It knocked the breath out of me. Luckily I'm a strong swimmer. After I surfaced, it took what seemed like forever to catch my breath.
It made an impression on me and to this day the idea of not being able to breathe is still there, lurking in my mind from time to time.
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