Golspie beach was deserted this morning, even though it is bank holiday Monday. From the tracks at the bottom of the access ramp two people and a dog had walked onto the beach before us but there was no other sign of them.
After a few days of damp and windy weather, the wind mostly from the west, the main difference on the beach was the number of jellyfish. We must have seen upward of thirty, including....
....moon jellyfish and....
....what seemed, from their colour, to be compass jellyfish.
The most common jellyfish on the beach was the blue jellyfish but we found considerable variation in colour, from the almost purple through semitransparent to....
....this paler one with its strange white structures. All these jellyfish have been floating around in the North Sea through the winter, growing steadily, but why they should suddenly start coming ashore now is a bit of a mystery.
None of them was above 10cm in diameter. However, if this is the first batch of this year's crop ashore, we're looking forward to some much bigger ones as the season advances.
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