Showing posts with label moon jellyfish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moon jellyfish. Show all posts

Friday, March 7, 2014

Mass jellyfish stranding on the Northumberland coast

More old pictures from the mid-1990s. These are from Embleton beach in Northumberland and show the most spectacular mass jellyfish stranding that I've ever encountered.



































Thousands of jellyfish, mostly the Lion's mane Cyanea capillata but also C.lamarckii and moon jellyfish Aurelia aurita, as far as the eye could see .....



































.... in both directions. The largest was about the size of a dinner plate.