Dear Auntie Lowan ======= Living on a small island with cool breezes, as opposed to your very large, hot island, we are exempt of all these deadly creatures, for which we should be eternaly gratefull to the Good Lord. (Watch, wallet, spectacles, testicles)
We do of course have rabbits, wabbits and bunnies. We also have their larger bretherin, the Jugged Hare. Very nice with sauerkraut and sauted potatos.
pueo -
don't go picking up seashells, either...
Phoenix....do I? Hmmmmmmmmmmm.....
Seashells is generally fine.
We have lots of cool bits, too - and we are a CONTINENT - not just an island, though we are an island, too. And our rabbits CAME from England!
no picking seashells by the seashore.........
isn't there some kind of poisonous starfish too?
Not that I know of! Sheeeeeeeeeah - god knows what the seashell comment meant.
maybe the seashell comment refers to the possible contact it may provide with the blue-ringed ocapus (Silvi's word for octopus).
Hmmmm - they seem to live in coke cans these days...
really? how interesting. And what about the jellies....?
Octo-pie, one of my favorites . . .
The jellies live rocked on the bosom of the ocean - unhouseled, naked, bare, multi-forked animals - we don't have the mean ones where I am, so I am no expert.
Octopuddies is SMART......!
the jellies tentacles are still toxic even when washed ashore (arcording to some aussie I once new)
Well, he would likely know - as I said, I am no mean jelly expert - it would make sense though, at least for a while, while the poison sacs were intact.
I am off to learn how to make mosaics - do you think my friends will come to rue this day? Mathoms - I hope I do not make mathoms....
some travel book i read said that there's a painful stinging little critter that likes to hide out in shells above the tide mark...
yes, the jellies are still dangerous. they don't intentionally sting you, it's a mechanism of the stinger cells, whose name i should know because i've got a test on this phylum next week but it's escaping me, as is the name of the damn phylum. grrrrrrrr........
I've been stung by one of these guys:
(Portuguese Man O' War.)
OUCH. I mean, leaping around acrobatically while clutching leg and screaming hysterically ouch.
Wore off, not fatal, but maaaaaaaaaaan...
Didja have somebody pee on your leg, or didja do it yerself? (A little bit of the other amber liquid...)
The lifeguard had some stuff in a bottle -- I did NOT ask what it was. It helped.
Been stung by those heaps of times-plus several different species of jellyfish.
