On shore, these things look like they might be breast implants that fell off a container ship on its way to Terminal 4, but the other day I saw this one floating in the water, and it looks like it might be an actual jellyfish -- but what do I know. This in the Willamette River, at the McCormick/Baxter Superfund site beach.
And this is my first youtube entry, in honor of the much ballyhooed google purchase. Next time I'll make the captions bigger.
You know, I think that is a sac of fish eggs. I grew up in Idaho, and in a lake we used to visit, bullheads made sacs like that for their eggs which over time began to hatch out wee tiny 1/2-inch long fish.
But I'm no biologist.