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| Title | Date of sighting | reporter | Image | Lat / Lng | Description | Type of organism | Other type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Coast Velella V… | Jellywatcher | 
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35.470 / -120.920 | 3 miles ::thousands Velella velella:: here for month May< |
Velella | ||
| Huntington Beach | Jellywatcher | 
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33.660 / -118.000 | There were quite a few of them washed up. |
Velella | ||
| Velellas | Jellywatcher | 
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34.260 / -119.270 | Hundreds of Velellas on Ventura Beach. |
Velella | ||
| Velella sighting | Jellywatcher | 
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35.180 / -120.730 | Several velellas are washed ashore on Avila Beach. |
Velella | ||
| Washed up velellas in… | Jellywatcher | 
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33.620 / -117.930 | Velella | |||
| Velella Velella | Jellywatcher | 
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32.940 / -117.260 | Thousands of sails drying in the beach |
Velella | ||
| Velella in Ventura | Jellywatcher | 
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34.230 / -119.290 | Several million of these "by the wind sailors" |
Velella | ||
| Blue Velella | Jellywatcher | 
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33.960 / -118.440 | We saw about a dozen of varying sizes along a mile stretc |
Velella | ||
| Velellas on San Simeon… | Jellywatcher | 
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35.710 / -121.190 | Quite a few we’re spotted on shore and we’re discarding t |
Velella | ||
| Velella, Agate Beach,… | Jellywatcher | 
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37.910 / -122.690 | Velella | |||
| Several vellela (at… | Jellywatcher | 
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44.680 / -124.060 | Velella (by the wind sailors) spotted in the tide pools a |
Velella | ||
| Velella at South Uist | Jellywatcher | 
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57.720 / -7.210 | Velella | |||
| Pismo Beach California… | Jellywatcher | 
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35.140 / -120.640 | Miles and miles of dead jellyfish |
Velella | ||
| Morro Strand Beach -… | Jellywatcher | 
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35.430 / -120.880 | Thousands of stranded valellas washed up on beach. |
Velella | ||
| Chesapeake Bay… | Jellywatcher | 
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36.920 / -76.060 | oozing blue shimmering matter |
Man o war | ||
| Chesapeake Bay… | Jellywatcher | 
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36.930 / -76.070 | oozing blue shimmering matter |
Man o war | ||
| Lion’s mane jelly washed… | MobileAnonymous | 
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47.700 / -122.390 | Jellyfish | Cyanea capillata | ||
| Velella | CathyStrom | 
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34.500 / -120.500 | Documented the first 15 |
Velella | ||
| Velallas at cayucos… | Jellywatcher | 
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35.440 / -120.890 | Many stranded velallas and hundred dead/dried up. |
Velella | ||
| Moon snail things | MobileAnonymous | 
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-32.040 / 115.830 | Hi this is my fist time posting. |
Other | ||
| Portuguese, man of war… | Jellywatcher | 
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36.910 / -76.090 | I’ve lived near the Chesapeake Bay my entire life and hav |
Man o war | ||
| Man o war | Jellywatcher | 
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36.710 / -75.940 | Spotted in Sandbridge beach, Virginia Beach, VA |
Man o war | ||
| Fort Story Beach Man o… | Jellywatcher | 
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36.860 / -76.000 | Spotted about 3 man o war washed up on shore at Fort Stor |
Man o war | ||
| Man o’ war sighting in… | Jellywatcher | 
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36.870 / -75.980 | Saw a man o’ war washed up on the beach at 46th street in |
Man o war | ||
| False cape | Jellywatcher | 
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36.630 / -75.900 | All beached, 4 in the distance of 1 mile. |
Man o war |