I saw literally hundreds the day I got stung…and yes,I know it’s migration/breeding season right now…but they’re everywhere this year !
Got any stingy stories to add ?
The “hot water buckets” are already lined up in OB. Stingrays LOVE Dog Beach!
I got hit and was the first in town this season. Nasty. Hope lightning doesn’t strike twice any time soon.
Apparently, (according to something somewhere on the net) you can get a shot of lidocaine in the hole for the pain, and then of course, good old opiates. My nurses only knew the hot water thing. I have never yelled about plain old pain as much as I did while driving home that day.
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Howzit Herb, Something fishy is going on, Waikiki had over 3 times the normal amount of box jelly fish hit the beach just the other day. Maybe Mother Ocean is sending her army to seek revenge for abusing her all these years.Aloha,Kokua
global warming?
Bingo. Jellies, anyway, eat zooplankton, which eats phytoplankton, which blooms explosively with heat & sunlight. 
And we’ve already decimated populations of the jellies’ primary predators: turtles & mola mola.
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Maybe Mother Ocean is sending her army to seek revenge for abusing her all these years.Aloha,Kokua
i think you hit the nail right on the head there, kokua
Turtles eat jellyfish? Wow/echh.
ANYWAY, it not can be ocean make mad. Man boss of ocean. Ocean weak and made of salty water, like WOMAN!
MAN STRONG! Man made of meat and beer and spicy food! Man KILL OCEAN!
Howzit soulstice, The Honolulu Advertser had a story the other day about scientists using different sea urchins that feed on the algae that is ruining reefs, seems they are on to something. The trick is matching which urchins that eat the different types of algae. Aloha,Kokua
that’s awesome. people are finally figuring out that if we didn’t get in the way, nature would take care of itself. and even once we have messed things, nature is still the best solution. sounds like some scientists have been reading up on the taoist principle of wu-wei. bravo!
If you want to see a lot of stingrays, then go snorkeling in front of the La Jolla beach and tennis club. That place has tons. It makes me smirk that rich people pay so much money to have their own little private strip of beach sand, but the water out in front has more stingrays per square foot than anywhere else in the county.
Knock on wood, but I have never been stung. I have stepped on an urchin before though. That really sucked.
I’ve had Vana spines not just stick in… but run thru my feet and hands…I still have a few rems in my left hand and foot.
The last time I was at “A-Bay” the inside was coated with those long,black and white spined urchins…I’ll take urchins anyday over rays,jellies,or razor coral.
First aid for sting ray is hot water, immerse the injury in hottest water you can handle, no need to cause burns with water that is too hot, you’ve got 5 maybe a few more minutes before the serious pain comes on, the hot water treatment takes about 20-30 minutes, stand by the hot water until you’re sure the pain is gone for good. Sting ray is a bad serious injury without hot water, with hot water its just a major inconvenience. This is the straight scoop from lifeguarding a beach that was loaded with sting rays.
Like everything else this stuff goes in cycles. Next year it will be over run with jellys or squid or nothing. I grew up surfing dog beach and know what ACE is talking about. That was nothing compared to the amount of sting rays I saw in the Clearwater area of Florida. I saw my first stingray in 10 years at Carmel Beach a couple of weeks ago. Water temp was a balmy 48 degrees. Scoot your feet! Mike
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Howzit soulstice, The Honolulu Advertser had a story the other day about scientists using different sea urchins that feed on the algae that is ruining reefs, seems they are on to something. The trick is matching which urchins that eat the different types of algae. Aloha,Kokua
Just two points!
Cane Toads were brought in to eat Cane Beetles that were destroying sugar cane crops. (we all know the outcome)
Mongoose’s were released in Hawaii to kill rats. (ate native birds instead)
Beware playing with nature!
James
And a similar thing has happened with apostrophes worldwide!
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Must have been 12 years ago, i was at scorpion bay with the fam. Livin out of the suburban at the time. By brother got hit the same day my buddy got hit once in each foot, about a second apart…same tail most likely, bam bam…there were tons there that year.
I remember my bro was like 9 yrs old. He cried like a baby for about 2 hours straight.
Lot’s of jellys and NO BEES. Bees are becoming scarce. I saw almost none on the flowers this spring. Trees that used to be alive in the spring and almost none. We lose them we lose it all. Some of this may be cycle but the earth can only support perhaps 8 billion. We lose something like bees and you can reduce that number by more than half. That means 2 billion + starve. Is it us? Are we the cause?
Howzit Keeno, Kauai is the one Island with no mongooses. There have been reportsof sightings but they have never found any here and they think the sightings are just cats. As for the toads, when I first arrived on Kauai there were toads everywhere's. The roads would be packed after big rains and if you tried to not run over them they would actually jump under your tires. But over the last 15 years or so there have been less and less toads and you barely ever see them unless you look under rocks in your yard you might find 1 or 2 but nothing like in the past. It may be the ozone layer thinning which has been a concern for toads in the Northwest US. The urchins the scientists are using are ones already here and not imported. The algae is the big problem since it kills the reefs and dead reefs are not a good thing.Aloha,Kokua
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