March 10, 2016

The jellyfish known as the "Portuguese man o war" are coming into the lagoon heavy from the east.  I always thought they were a near death kind of thing.  That's not the case.  They do burn like hell, but unless you end up in a swaggle of them, you live.  Swaggle, yes, my own word.  We spent a day out here at the beginning of my contract arguing the names of other species in a group.  The best one had to be a "parliament of owls".  It went on for a while.  A gaggle of vultures, a school of fish, pride of lions, herd of elephants, army of ants, pod of whales, pack of wolves......it went on like that.  We never did get to "Portuguese man o war".  I'm sure no one has a name for a group of them, so "swaggle" it is.....