A color photo of a drift of washed up velella velella, a small floating sea organism like a jellyfish, on the beach. There are a lot of them and they are very blue but many are covered with sand.
A color photo of one velella velella, a small floating sea organism like a jellyfish, on the beach. It has a tiny sail that is sea foam pale and translucent on a darker blue body.
A blurry color photo of the underside of a velella velella, a small floating sea organism like a jellyfish, on the beach. It has dark blue tendrils like a sea anemone. This terrible photo was included only for science lol
Velella velella back on the north Oregon coast! Got to the beach this morning and there were slippery smelly drifts of them covering the sand. They're so cool - so blue and strange. I don't even mind the smell. #velellavelella #by-the-wind-sailor #hydrozoa […]
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