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Title Date of sighting reporter Image Lat / Lng Description Type of organism Other type
Moon jellyfish? swimmingidiots -33.820 / 151.260

Spotted a small transparent jellyfish this morning about

Jellyfish
Clean Sea Balmoral swimmingidiots -33.820 / 151.250 Clean sea
Comb Jellies (ctenophore… swimmingidiots -33.820 / 151.250

Saw dozens (maybe hundreds) of comb jellies today about 3

Other Comb Jelly
Jimbles swimmingidiots -33.820 / 151.250

Less swimmers today and less tomorrow after the latest ro

Box Jelly Carybdea
Hundreds of moon jellies… swimmingidiots -33.820 / 151.250

Hundreds if not thousands of moon jellies encountered tod

Jellyfish Moon
Moon jellyfish swimmingidiots Alt text -33.820 / 151.260

Hundreds of moon jellies sighted about 350m offshore.

Jellyfish
Jimbles swimmingidiots -33.820 / 151.250

A few Jimbles sighted today at Balmoral

Jellyfish Cubozoa
Jimbles at Balmoral swimmingidiots Alt text -33.820 / 151.250

Those pesky Jimbles continue to make swimming at Balmoral

Box Jelly Cubozoa
Jimbles everywhere mobile_jellywatcher -33.820 / 151.250 Box Jelly Jimbles
Mnemiopsis leidyi… swimmingidiots -33.820 / 151.250

I spotted a fascinating comb jelly about 350m offshore at

Other Comb jelly
Comb jellies (Ctenophora… swimmingidiots -33.820 / 151.260

Spotted about 50 comb jellies this morning.

Other Ctenophora
Clean sea Balmoral swimmingidiots -33.820 / 151.250 Clean sea
Jimbles are back at… swimmingidiots -33.820 / 151.250

Got stung today by one of those blighters

Box Jelly Carybdea
Jimbles at Balmoral swimmingidiots -33.820 / 151.250

A few people stung by Jimbles today

Box Jelly Carybdea
Jimbles at Northbridge… Jellywatcher -33.810 / 151.220

As well as the plague of Moon jellyfish we've had fo

Box Jelly
Jellyfish - carybdea… sfrjoe -33.810 / 151.220

We have caught 687 over the past three weeks in Northbrid

Jellyfish
Jimbles - Carybdea… sfrjoe -33.810 / 151.220

Northbridge Baths since late May 2015.

Jellyfish
Cauliflower Jellyfish… iSwimtoo Alt text -33.800 / 151.290 Jellyfish Cauliflower, Cephea
Bluebottles at Fairlight… swimmingidiots -33.800 / 151.270

Newspaper article and photos of the thousands of bluebott

Man o war Bluebottle
jimble Trimjelly -33.800 / 151.290 Jellyfish
Fluther of jellyfish Jellywatcher -33.800 / 151.300

A fluther of small pink jellyfish

Jellyfish
Portuguese Man o War (… Jellywatcher Alt text -33.800 / 151.290 Man o war
Box/Jimble in Sydney… Jellywatcher -33.800 / 151.270

i was in the SUP this afternoon and spotted between 3-6 o

Jellyfish
Jimbles (Carybdea… iSwimtoo -33.800 / 151.290 Box Jelly Carybdea
Jimble in Fairy Bower,… Jellywatcher -33.800 / 151.290

Got stung by a jimble whilst snorkeling

Box Jelly Carybdea