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Today was a windy day, with the maximum wind reaching 48 knots in the afternoon. Thanks to the strong wind and waves, we returned to the leading position.
The waves beside the boat were flying like a kaleidoscope, there were countless overlapping ripples on the big waves, and on each ripple, there were small branches that rolled and spread out. Scattered in the rolling waves were large and small Man o' War jellyfish. These drifting light blue bubbles have different shapes, ranging from as small as pods to as large as the palm of your hand. Although some are abnormally full and some are completely flat and look just like plastic, they are all in the shape of dumplings. If you look closely at the underwater flocculent attachments of the bubbles, they are the frightening tentacles of the Man o' War jellyfish. The whole body is blue-purple, which reminds me of blueberry mousse cake, some of them still had undigested lunch wrapping around them.
They are in groups within a few meters of the boat. Sometimes they appear in large groups, and sometimes hundreds of them appear together in dense groups. The boat rushed into the jellyfish group and scattered them. A few bubbles bounced away lightly when they hit each other, like colliding billiard balls; most of them fell down weakly and waited for a long time before the boat passed by, surfacing like a tumbler. Although the Man o' War jellyfish is said to have hurt countless people, standing on a boat in this storm and watching them is nothing more than that. It has neither the ability to move independently nor the means of long-range attack, which is not a threat at all!
From Zack, somewhere outside the Santa Barbara cargo channel.