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Lots of little jellyfish and one big one this morning.

Posted by JamesF <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/lamanzanillainfo/info/user=JamesF' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 29, 2025, 9:18 am

Saw this one near Bahia Azul.

Re: Lots of little jellyfish and one big one this morning.

Posted by DhyanaB <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/lamanzanillainfo/info/user=DhyanaB' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 30, 2025, 9:03 am, in reply to "Lots of little jellyfish and one big one this morning."

I usually associated this (as well as red tide) with water temperature getting colder, but I'm not certain... Has that been the case?

Ocean Temperature

Posted by Mark S <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/lamanzanillainfo/info/user=Mark+S' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on May 1, 2025, 6:30 am, in reply to "Re: Lots of little jellyfish and one big one this morning."

We've experienced quite a rise in the temperature of the ocean in the past 3 weeks. For instance, on April 12 the water temperature in LM was 68.5F. Then, we began to experience incremental increase in the temperature readings each day thereafter. Today, the water temperature is 81.7F.

Yes, jellyfish and stingrays are normally associated with cooler ocean temps. However, I swam into quite a few malaguas on Tuesday (the frayed dirty brown paper variety). Maybe they, too, were caught off guard by the relatively sudden rise in ocean temperature.

Hopefully, all of the nasty creatures will move on now that the water is consistently delightful again.

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