What made you smile recently (2024)?

medtran49 said:
That reminded me of the time Craig and I were diving with a couple of friends. I was buddies with 1 of our friends and entered the water first. When I hit bottom, I was literally swarmed with a bunch of newborn or just days old nurse sharks that swam circles around this odd, noisy, new thing in their world. When my buddy hit bottom, quite a few went to check him out as well. They swam around our feet for a few minutes then went back in the direction they came from.
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The little encounters like that are magical aren't they.
 
I recall jumping off a sailboat into the Gulf of Mexico and being stung by a bjillion sea nettles. Wasn't incapacitating but I wasn't smiling much either! Found out meat tenderizer fixes that right up. Don't eat much meat but I've a bottle of tenderizer in the med cabinet.
 
Yeah, I've gotten stung by pieces of jelly fish tentacles left from people running their boat over them. Thing is, you don't see them until it's too late. I had 1 that wrapped itself around my neck, going partway down my front and nearly all the way down my back. Looked and felt like I had a horrendous case of shingles. I started diving with at least a skin on after that, which is basically a very, very thin wetsuit.

We have moon jelly populations that float through in large colonies at certain times of the year. More than once, we'd have to wait to surface for a colony to float by when we were diving off our anchored boat. It was pretty cool though to look up and watch the sun through their bodies.
 
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