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Typical Spanish beach holiday...
I got a little bored and decided to go snorkelling. Got all the kit on and started swimming out, after about 10 metres i noticed some fish on the sea bed and followed them. Not 30 seconds after i had spotted the fish, my leg started to sting and i noticed a jellyfish hovering quite close to my leg. Instinctively i moved away, into another jellyfish this one latched onto my leg. Really stinging now, i shook it off and started to swim back to shore .. through a whole shoal of them. My whole body started to burn and i tried to swim as fast as i could back to the shore, and its not that easy when your covered by jellyfish who are stinging you constantly.

Anyway in the process of things i made it to shore and managed to take the flippers off and stumble up the beach to where the rest of my family was. Feeling totally knackered and still burning i collapsed infront of my mum who screamed at me, i didnt realise that i still had a jellyfish on my head, my body was numbed to the pain at this point i just wanted to know how to make it stop.

Well we all know how to stop a jelly fish sting don't we, i looked around and the people next to us were having the same problem, my eyes are now scarred from seeing a fat spanish man pissing on his 10 year old daughter. Well i didnt have to go through that, the people we were with had some jellyfish relief cream, so i covered myself in the stuff.

Needless to say i didnt go back into the water much that holiday, but i did stand on the shore with a fishing net and catch hundreds of jellyfish, they just kept on coming in. I dug a hole in the sand and buried them all, it made me feel better :)
(Sat 4th Jun 2005, 17:04, More)