Any one else get hit by stingers at kyemagh this week? i got some long thin tentacles wrapped around my legs while water starting and have stings all down my calf musdcles now. 
Pretty awesome wind tho this arvo 
I got the same thing Craig. I stuffed a gybe 30m from shore and started walking in to beach start depth and felt some soft "sea weed" wrap around my legs. I was OK with that until I realised that there's no seaweed at Kyeemagh and it started stinging. I've still got a bit of prickling on my shins...
It was a cracker of a seabreeze today, but one of those angry black noreasters...
Oh yeah! Stung big time on my legs. I've just shaved the stung areas and soaked in vinegar. Still hurts like crazy though....
I went for a SUP from Ramsgate to Brighton yesterday morning and was surprised at the variety of different stingers in the water. Lots of small ones, the size of a tennis ball, with long tentacles. Some strange looking ones with reddish colouring; the standard clear jellyfish; and the odd big brownish ones that used to be quite prevalent but not so anymore.
Yesterday at Wanda I was trying to surf with my 7 YO but we gave up as too windy. The Sailboards and kites were having a field day.
We had no Blueys there but the water was full of the tiny clear Jellyfish particles, so much so, I nearly swallowed one.
I didnt think they stung at all but felt a little itchy afterwards but that could also be sea lice....perils of the water I guess.
BTW..saw one Kite surfer do the biggest air I have ever seen...had to be 50m ..he looked like a speck in the distance event tho he was only about 30m from us when he launched.
I wonder how many people remember the "good old days" back around 2002 when El Nino was in full swing. In those days Botany Bay was so full of jelly fish you almost needed a weed fin.
I am guessing the warmer water temperatures this year are a good breeding ground for them.
No need for a weed fin, just sharpen the leading edge of your fin. Cuts like a knife through butter
i was there & didn t see any kites must of been later.. anyway maybe you did see a kite jump 50m, & triple the current world record .. so he must of got caught in a up lift.. did he come down ? maybe he's still up there,?. 50m is as tall as the tallest buildings in cronulla.. 5 telegraph poles !! maybe it was more like 15m,, still a HUGE jump
yeah...I think I have to concede defeat...I checked over on the "dark side" forum and they said the record is only 25m....but it was effen huge from where I was.
It was around 5:30pm
Kyeemagh was gusting 38knots (The really strong gusts had a lot of north in them). I think it is totally possible for a kite to catch a green one and get lifted 50m.
Pretty full on conditions.... A few of those big ugly purple jelly fish back in the Bay also.
I think I trod on a numbray on Monday afternoon....It was only my 2nd time windsurfing (or rather jumping on, uphauling and falling off due to strong wind and lack of talent) and I was wearing booties...One time when I fell down or jumped off the rig I felt this mild electric shock in my foot...It was very minor and was wondering if it was a numb ray and if it would have been much worse had I not been wearing booties.
I know they are around as I have caught a few when I used to fish off the cooks river retaining wall.
