We usually don’t pay much attention when the Portuguese Man o’ War are washed up onto the sand. Sometimes there are many of them. Often none.
Yesterday there were a few.
I finally stopped and took a closer look. This one was probably a little under two inches in lenth, with the long blue string of stingers that stretched out across the sand.
Up close, it was quite beautiful, with a sail tipped with a line of red.
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Beautiful, Ian. Don’t know why I see — or should see — things in such images but the bottom/second image evokes a stegosaurus, with the snout in the lower left, and the left front leg in the lower right.
Or blown glass.
Or . . . . .
Nice pic. My son when he was two years old called them “Portalgeeze” Man Of War, like something out of Beatlejuice. The name has stuck in our family since then.
My toddler called them “porkajeez” man-o-war, a name that has also stuck, even some 20 years later.