My flight to the Bay Area was delayed so the BF and I decided to drive around Point Loma to kill some time. We parked the car in a residential area near SIO's Nimitz location and walked down the beach. Little did we know we would find a mystery.
Walking along the beach, we came along some blobs in the sand. First reaction: Let's poke it with a stick!
It's really hard to find a stick on a beach by the way. We used a dried piece of grass that was stiff enough to be a stick. Totally McGyvered that.
So despite it's squishy appeal and giving somewhat to our poking, we couldn't really poke the stick into this lumpy mass. After some time we got bored...
This was the second blob we found... Yes those tentacles were a clue to what these blobs could be.
And we started kicking. This could only entertain us for awhile... so we continued down the beach. We eventually found the answer to our little mystery when we looked into the water.
An example of an organism that has radial symmetry. Yes it is bilateral on any line of symmetry, so we call it radial, A-Tay.
We started wondering if these jellyfish were native to San Diego. We got our answer later, courtesy of the Local News.
The name just sounds cool: Black Sea Nettle and I'm kind of glad now that we didn't actually touch them with our hands. Just saying, it would've been interesting to still have tried to touch it and deal with the stinging problem right there on the beach. Full bladder anyone?
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Black Sea Nettle.
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