Awaydays Blog Post 26: A Day at the Seaside

I went swimming today. Aslings Beach Rock Pool is an ocean pool in Eden on the NSW south coast. According to unreliable sources it was built in 1961. It's ace!

However, you do have to be careful, because there was an undesirable on the beach: the Pacific Man O'War (Physalia physalis), also known as the man-of-war or bluebottle, is a marine hydrozoan found in the Pacific Ocean. It is considered to be the same species as the Portuguese Man O'War. It's not a jellyfish, it's a community of nasty stingy things suspended below a gas sack. (Read more here).