Scenes from the Beach | June 26, 2016
Jellyfish are stranded today at water’s edge. Their wet bodies gleam like diamonds in the early morning sunshine. Small in size, they are about the diameter of a 50-cent coin, translucent and completely harmless with no visible tentacles. I guess the “jellies” to be immature comb jellyfish whose cousins have been roaming the seas of the world for about 500 million years. Their presence here calls to mind Charlie Chaplin’s famous quote: “Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
Diary, summer 2016
From the diary of beach walker George Thatcher,
email: fishcrow@aol.com. Collections of Mr. Thatcher’s observations are available from Quail Ridge Press, www.quailridge.com or 800-343-1583.
This story was originally published June 25, 2016 at 9:00 AM with the headline "Scenes from the Beach | June 26, 2016."