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sealord > After a period of warm southerly and south-westerly winds, the weather changed. Strong colder winds came from the north-east and an easterly direction. On 2 November 2006 by-the-wind sailors entered St. Peter Port harbour on Guernsey's east coast, driven in by the wind. Commercial fisherman Clive Brown called to tell me that about 25 Velella velella were washed up on the shore near his dinghy in the harbour. I went down to the Albert marina and with a discarded coke bottle I was able to collect four Velella velella by reaching out from a pontoon. This picture shows one of them which is mirrored by the water's surface. Photo taken with a Canon S80 with underwater housing. File No. 021106 4218 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > The by-the-wind sailor, Velella velella, is a colonial hydroid in the phylum cnidaria. By-the-wind sailors possess a thin, almost flat oval chitinous float with a vertical fin-like sail attached diagonally across the top of the float. Tentacles, which possess weak stinging cells, surround the central mouth underneath the float. This image is taken of the underside of the edge of the float and shows some of the tentacles that ring the mouth. This species occasionally shows up on Guernsey's west coast beaches usually during the Autumn / Fall when south-westerly winds bring them into the English Channel. Occasional we see them on Guernsey's east coast during a period of easterly wind. Photographed on the 12 December 1999. File No. 121299 33-353 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
After a period of warm southerly and south-westerly winds, the weather changed. Strong colder winds came from the north-east and an easterly direction. On 2 November 2006 by-the-wind sailors entered St. Peter Port harbour on Guernsey's east coast, driven in by the wind. Commercial fisherman Clive Brown called to tell me that about 25 Velella velella were washed up on the shore near his dinghy in the harbour. I went down to the Albert marina and with a discarded coke bottle I was able to collect four Velella velella by reaching out from a pontoon. This picture shows one of them which is mirrored by the water's surface. Photo taken with a Canon S80 with underwater housing.
File No. 021106 4218
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > After a period of warm southerly and south-westerly winds, the weather changed. Strong colder winds came from the north-east and an easterly direction. On 2 November 2006 by-the-wind sailors entered St. Peter Port harbour on Guernsey's east coast, driven in by the wind. Commercial fisherman Clive Brown called to tell me that about 25 Velella velella were washed up on the shore near his dinghy in the harbour. I went down to the Albert marina and with a discarded coke bottle I was able to collect four Velella velella by reaching out from a pontoon. This picture shows one of them which is mirrored by the water's surface. Photo taken with a Canon S80 with underwater housing. File No. 021106 4218 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
After a period of warm southerly and south-westerly winds, the weather changed. Strong colder winds came from the north-east and an easterly direction. On 2 November 2006 by-the-wind sailors entered St. Peter Port harbour on Guernsey's east coast, driven in by the wind. Commercial fisherman Clive Brown called to tell me that about 25 Velella velella were washed up on the shore near his dinghy in the harbour. I went down to the Albert marina and with a discarded coke bottle I was able to collect four Velella velella by reaching out from a pontoon. This picture shows one of them which is mirrored by the water's surface. Photo taken with a Canon S80 with underwater housing.
File No. 021106 4218
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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