Large numbers of highly toxic bluebottle jellyfish have washed ashore in Australia

So pretty! So pretty that you have to be afraid to touch it because beauty like this nature's way of taunting you.

I wanna touch it. I really wanna touch it.

You guys really can't catch a break.

How dangerous Australia is: Exhibit #354482

Got stung by one at bondi it hurts a lot but then i moved to northern australia and got stung by a box jelly fish it was a lot worse

Also known as Portuguese man o' war and floating terror

It hurts a lot to be stung by one but when you live in Australia this is basically normal and all part of going swimming at a beach.

They're just bluebottles its ok this happens every summer. They're super common and are everywhere its something people have learnt to deal with everyones been stung by a bluebottle a couple of times.

Haha, i saw HEAPS of these things a few days ago.

They look like jelly figures

why am i living in Australia?

At first I thought the picture was of dinosaur shaped gummy candy.

It's a Portuguese man o' war, and it's not a jelly fish. We aren't even sure if we should classify it as one organism or many organisms.

As an Australian- "oh great!"

Lived in Sydney my whole life... Never gotten stung. But they're so pretty it makes my eyes hurt!