On 2008-02-25 11:23:51 -0500, "Armond Perretta"
said:

Rosalie B. wrote:

Also you need to wear a dive skin or the like because of jellyfish.

How far north on the Bay are people seeing nettles just now (I mean in
season, of course)? Used to be that in the northern Bay we could swim and
not worry. I plan to hang out on the Bay a bit this summer and want to get
an idea of the problem. Reason I mention this is that we are seeing nettles
in Barnegat that we once never even had to think about.

They fairly regularly get up to the Wye by mid-June, Chester River by
July/August. One year saw a mess on the Bush River (above Poole's
Island). Also saw a mating pair or two of the mantas or rays
(Bull-nose?) on the Bush that weekend.

Somewhere around the web is a nettle predictor for the Bay that's not
too far off. I just sent off a message to the list I believe found it
for me. As I recall, there's a fairly narrow range of temperature and
salinity they prefer so some times the mid-Bay has more than the
southern Bay.

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