Southeastern North Carolina on a barrier island. Pic
His name is Larry.
Now go watch TV and stop asking us so many questions!
I also found this mysterious, colourless jelly with rounded edges by the sea: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aBV7yZv6EJk/TQ6pUrMygSI/AAAAAAAAuas/vP7lxEsFm6k/s1600/DSC_4012.JPG And I’m wondering what it is.
Baby shoggoth.
To the OP: Probably this guy.
To AaronX, that looks like a part of a jelly fish.
AaronX, yours could be the egg sac of a sand snail.
Ah, that looks exactly like what I saw! I thought the dots inside were bubbles. But isn’t that egg sac as big as the snail itself?
That article says “purple striped jelly” which I know is mostly a west coast thing, Chrysaora colorata. Wikipedia says that one (more accurate) is sometimes called a “mauve stinger,” but no US name is given.
Close enough for me. Thanks.
Maybe, but someone else told me it was Irving.
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Perhaps - but bear in mind, it’s mostly water - the snail only needs to secrete the protein/saccharide matrix of the jelly, and the environment provides the hydration to pump it up to that size.
Yeah, I figured that’s the only way they could manage it. I wonder how they prevent it from dispersing? Is there a “skin”?
http://www.southernshores.auz.info/beachcombing/archives/nov.htm has pictures that look the same, and the description matches mine - November, in Victoria, Australia.