Jelly Fish In The Hawkesburry River

[locodave]

There seems to be a lot of those big jelly fish in the Hawkesburry River, what type are they? Poisoneous?

[Elvis]

Non poisonous as far asI am aware. It's only Irrikunjandi (s/p?) and Box Jellys that are truly poisonous.

The ones in the Hawkesbury are everywhere, i saw some 10mins East of Windsor a few days ago!

[Day's Fishin]

Their not poisonous & nor do they sting. However theres always a chance that there is a couple of bad species floating around with them so just don't touch them.

Regards Jeff

[Krispy !]

I remember once i went kayaking around milsons island and they were in their hundreds under me.

[GregL]

There seems to be a lot of those big jelly fish in the Hawkesburry River, what type are they? Poisoneous?

The clear flat ones with 3 dots that look like bowling ball holes are ok but the brown mushroom type with legs do sting. The tops are ok but the legs are the stingy bits.

G

[Berleyguts]

They stung me at Wisemans the other day. Not bad though.

Baz

[river_kid]

they do sting not all that painfull just irratating.

[Elvis]

I didn't see any on Sunday morning. Maybe the rain pushed them all back down the river

[Gremlin]

Was fishing at Mooney Mooney bridge this morning and as I was fishing off the little rock beach near the car park I got stung by one of them, its just a little burning tingly weird sensation, washed it off with some bottled water I had and wiped it off with a towel and all was good in a few minutes

I did get a picture of a few of them, including one that was HUGE easily 40cm in diameter

Edited January 10, 2010 by Gremlin