Monday 9th January 2012
Yesterday I swam in the Tasmanian sea water… Twice!
And it was just beautiful, not a horrid shock, as I had feared, after warm tropical water over the past year. The beach at Cremorne is so wonderful, with a soaring sea eagle, happy joggers, happy swimmers.
Family time, friend time - what could be better?
Saturday we will be back on 2XS after an extremely busy (and happy!) time in beautiful Tasmania.
More adventures to come, more swimming in waters of different temperature. And I hope – no stingers, no crocodiles! And can anyone tell me why jellysfish sting has to be so very painful? Surely just a small ouchy-ouch moment would be enough to repel us from the jellyfish environment? Irukanji jellyfish have a horrid stinging system. Nothing happens until about 30 minutes after the poor unsuspecting human has left the water. Then comes – stomach cramps, malaise, and a general sense of impending doom. Lovely! And soon after comes – intense pain! Much too late, one would have thought, to protect the tiny Irukanji from the fearsome human!
I will have to ask Jeff about this, he loves this sort of science and nature mystery and I'm sure he will have a theory. xoxo
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