Blobs on the beach

Swam in Pobbles with Daughter and Louie this morning. Glorious morning but cold sea. As I went in I remembered the words I'd read somewhere recently from a woman who'd gone cold water swimming. She spoke of the shock followed by, "exhilaration, and a feeling of being truly alive."

I tried to channel these emotions. "Oh, oh, oah, oh-oh-oh, oh my hands are cold." Not quite as poetic but true. Once I was in it was lovely though.

There were several of these slightly ridged-looking clear blobs of jelly on the beach. They were about the size of a finger-nail.

I've googled it and this is what I found out:

They are called pleurobrachia pileus, a species of comb jelly, commonly known as a "sea gooseberry". 

Sea gooseberries are often around 2.5cm in length and have a pair of tentacles that are usually up to twenty times the length of their body and are used to catch prey.

They feed on plankton and when it's sunny you get a lot of plankton so sea gooseberries reproduce to make the most of the food that's there. 

I'm glad I didn't know about their tentacles when I poked one.

There's something about that feeding/reproducing logic that bothers me, that doesn't seem quite right, but I can't put my finger on it. I shall have to think.