Aquarium 3

So here is another selection of Jellyfish pictures from Monterey Bay Aquarium. After this post I think I will share some pictures of birds that are kept at the aquarium, but first enjoy these beauties.

The large jellyfish in the first few shots is I believe a Black Sea Nettle. A search using Google lens suggested either a Lion's Mane Jellyfish or the black sea nettle and comparing other photos of the different species I am inclined towards the sea nettle. If anyone seeing this knows better then feel free to comment and let me know.

The very delicate, transparent species in the last two shots is a Red-eyed Medusa. Another search using Lens suggested Snow Globe Jellyfish as an alternative but I think the feature which sets this out as a Red-eyed Medusa is the ring of red spots around the rim of the bell, which look like tiny eyes.

Of course had I taken notes when I was at the aquarium I would not have needed to do searches now and I would be able to state with confidence what they are. I often do this, I see something, photograph it and make a mental note convinced that I will remember, but time passes and my head fills up with other more important ( and often less important) stuff, pushing out the facts I wanted to remember. It teaches me, in the moment that I shouldn't rely on my memory. And then as if to prove the point, next time I go somewhere like the aquarium or a zoo I do exactly the same thing, forgetting the lesson I thought I had learned.

The other lesson it teaches me is that despite the many benefits of the internet and all the information that is available online you cannot always rely on it to provide a definitive answer.

I hope you have enjoyed the pictures from these three most recent posts and hopefully you will take note of the lessons that I should learn and not fall into the same mistakes as me. Now, what am I supposed to be doing next...