Be aware of these at Fraser

[randell]

Hi all,
Saw this in the local paper this morning.
http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com....sland/1705173/

Didn't think they came this far south.
randell

[Bladeca]

They've been around fraser for a couple of years now. Was only a few at the start and usually up around orchid beach. Guess they will become a common thing eventually, which will take locals a bit to get used to i think.

[randell]

I saw those sting suits in K-Mart a couple of days back.
randell

[GBC]

They've always been there, just more people to be stung now and most with zero common sense. After the month of Northerlies we've had the bay is chockers with all sorts of jellyfish. Then you see the bloke tearing around Maringa bommie with his kids on an inflatable tube and all the dots start to join up. When they get smashed by the local tiger shark there'll be an article about those and global warming as well. There was a swimming enclosure at Scarness when I was a kid with stinger nets around it - it was built in the 1940's. Global warming has cooked peoples brains.

[finga]

There was a swimming enclosure in Tewantin for all the nasties when I was a kid as well.
Yep. Global warming has cooked people's brains alright.

[banksmister]

A young boy with his family beside us at Awinya got choppered out on the 31 of dec after being stung on the leg.
When i spoke to his father the next day he said he had a reaction to a stinger bite, and was flown out as a precaution
There was no mention about Irukandji

[nathank]

From the links off the page that was posted there wasnt any confirmation of Irukandji stings anyway?? I watched a doco not too long ago about some research scientists in cairns and they both got stung, one on the lip and the other on the finger and they were in intensive care for a few days in agony..

one of the blokes who got stung on fraser decided to stay on the island after getting stung....
Cmon... lets be realistic here... They weren't Irukandji..

[randell]

This was on ABC webpage.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-0...blooms/4452492
I will email the doctor and report her answer..
How do you confirm it was irukandji??
randell

[randell]

gday Randall -- not wasting my time at all -- glad to help!

Yes, there are Irukandjis at Fraser... let's talk. I can help arm you with answers to put it into a balanced and accurate context. I am on the fly at the moment, flat out with numerous jellyfish issues all coming to a head at the same time. Can I ring you later? It is a lot easier for me to cover something like this on the phone because I am a shockingly slow typist. Plus I can answer questions as they crop up that way too. I am happy to pay the cost of the call if you give me a number and time frame that works for you. Or you are welcome to ring or text me at 0408 0808 29

Cheers, Lisa

From: "randell" <randell@winshop.com.au>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 6:52 AM
To: lisa.gershwin@stingeradvisor.com
Subject: recent jellyfish stings at Fraser Is

Hello Dr,
I don't want to waste your time, but in this ABC report.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-0...blooms/4452492
It says you have confirmed that the recent stings were irukandji.

I was just wondering if this is true, as I'm in the AUSFISH forum and a few members don't believe there are irukandji at Fraser, and take their families there.
I have been reading your website, www.stingadvisor.com, which I found very interesting.
I guess to confirm the type of sting, you would have to get a scrape of the skin on the victum and look for sting cells under a microscope.

I was talking to a young lifeguard at Elliott Heads beach a couple of days back and he said that there were over 100 cases of irukandji stings at Fraser Is.

Thankyou
Randell

[lee8sec]

6 now,not all confirmed as Irukandji stings as yet. We had atleast 1 last year. Leigh

http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com....-isla/1708074/

[MudRiverDan]

Yeah seen that on tv 7 now.

Been fishing down at Cabarita over Christmas and from what I could tell there, the winds blowing hard Northerly all the time, strong beach rips pushing from the North, Cyclone apparently pushing.

So if that is any indication I would risk a guess that these things are also being blown South with the current Northerly trends.

They don't swim too well so where ever the wind and current takes em they go.

Dan

[banksmister]

Seven people hit and not one intensive care or death [thank god]

That’s a bit p1$$ poor from one of the world’s most deadly animals.

I guess global warming has dulled them down hey.

Or is it that media needs to sell there product.

[randell]

Have a look at Dr Lisa's website, she's the top irukandji scientist in aus, pretty interesting stuff, different verities of irukandji, even estuary creatures......................................... ..
that's what worries me............ as I just swim at the beaches around Bundaberg and fish it's estuaries.
www.stingadvisor.com

Anyway I'll let you know any advice she gives me...
cheers
randell

[cuzzamundi]

Iruakandji can affect different people at different levels of severity - all depends how much envenomation has been incurred. Often people only get a minor sting, which resolves within a few hours. The unlucky ones get done good and proper (see Jamie Seymour and Theresa Carette doco), and are effed for days, and in agony.

There have most certainly been irukandji stings at Fraser in the past, and the latest stings are probably minor ones. There were even two confirmed stings at Redcliffe back in the early 2000's.

I don't think even the chief scientists like Seymour and Carrette know exactly where and when you'll find them, so it's a bit of a sticky situation that scares lots of people. I know there are steadfast rules for the north - if she's blowing from the north or not at all, but down south around Fraser, there have been south easters for sometime now, so who knows.

Either way let's hope they ping off as quickly as they came!

Cuzza

[lee8sec]

http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com....andji/1710273/