Just over 10 years ago while sailing down the coast from the North West, we happened to see a sight we'd never seen before, And I guess you would call it the annual migration of the "Jellies," Jelly Fish to be exact but we like to call them jellies.
And It was on that trip that we saw the little buggers, By the thousands you could say and enough that we got a really good look at them. Little purple things a couple inches long but what was strange, they have a little sail atop their body, to catch the wind across the water I would guess.
We would pull into port for a night or two but as soon as we started out, we'd see them again, and at first up north, they were in large pods a couple hundred yards across but as we sailed further south we found smaller and smaller areas of these little purple sailing jellies and often wondered where did they come from and again, where are they going.
So over the last few years we've almost forgotton about them until today, while doing a couple chores in the cockpit while anchored in the bay, out from under the back come floating a purple jellie, and another, and another..
I yelled to Ramona, get up here, you gota see this........... And you should have seen her face, as it was like an old friend had come to visit her. so we both sat there on the back of the boat, smiling at each other and pointing at the Jellies, and talking of memories of past.
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