Reply To: JCCC3 Snorkel Monkeys
On the last cruise, I had a rather close-up personal experience with fire coral. They took us out on a boat when they probably shouldn’t have — there was a storm passing by, and the waves were getting strong — and a swell propelled me into the edge of the reef knees-first. I wasn’t scraped up too badly, and I’m used to the occasional bump or bruise anyway because of my work. But a week later, I broke out in a bunch of little, itchy red welts from the nematocysts. The rash might have freaked out someone who did not know what it was.