Portugese Men of War at Pembrey

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 Rob o'r Bont wrote:

 aber-fan wrote:

 roy munster wrote:

 aber-fan wrote:

 roy munster wrote:

Some of these jellyfish are practically immortal as they age backwards like benjamin button , very strange but true...https://thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist/158-biologist/features/1510-everlasting-life-the-immortal-jellyfishThe man o war isnt immortal but is said to sting like heck, is there any particular reason why pembrey attracts  so many jellyfish

Interesting link!

I read somewhere that jellyfish aren't a 'single animal', but some sort of collection (a collective? ) of cells, or whatever... Biology isn't my specialist subject, but maybe that is linked to this story in some way.

As for Aberystwyth - we had some jellyfish earlier in the year (not PMoW type) but haven't seen any for a while - we got a couple of dead seals, though - had to keep the dog away from those!

(I should have said - I think from observation - not from a scientific paper - that jellyfish get stranded more easily on flat, sandy beaches rather than sloping, pebbly ones - hence Pembrey - or Borth - rather than Aberystwyth or similar.)

My wife got stung, once, by a PMoW in Cannes - it took her 6 moths to recover - the rash would seem to disappear, only to come back again. Very painful and unpleasant.

Cannes eh ? very posh 

We lived in a 16m2 studio together for 18 months, before moving to Paris. Try that, and tell me it's posh!Eh, Luxoory - We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

Unlike your comment, mine was actually 100% true and accurate.