Tomorrow's Today (Or the Case of the Jellyfish)

Like I promised I'm going to talk about yesterday today (I'm talking about Sunday).  Sunday, I went to the beach in Motril.  If you remember the post about maps in Spain you know its already quite difficult to read a map.  Try finding a beach in a town with no maps and bad signs.

It gets better.

The beach is 3 kilometers away from the town center.  It requires a bus.

This town was recommended to me by a teacher here.  All the while I was trying to find the beach I was questioning her sanity.

I found the beach.  It was quite nice, but a bit rocky.  All the beaches here are rocky with the one exception of a beach or two in Málaga.  I liked this beach (after an hour of trying to get there after the hour long bus ride to the city.)  My friend I went with (no I don't travel alone) rented out an umbrella and a chair.  I would have too if it hadn't been 5euro each.  So she was on a chair and I was on the stones.  It was actually quite comical.

While I was swimming I was floating around on the top because its more fun that way.  As I was floating something dark passed me by and I stared at it.  At first I thought it was garbage.  There was quite a bit floating around.  Or seaweed.

And then I saw tentacles.

If only I had an underwater camera, there would be a picture of this jellyfish.  It was brown and about four inches in diameter with about 6 inch tentacles.

I watched it float by.

A little while later, a boy caught a jelly fish.

Some more time later, people kept yelling "¡Medusa!"

If you're ever in a spanish speaking country and you hear medusa, look to the water and start looking for a jellyfish near you and get out.  Medusa is the word for jellyfish in spanish if you haven't figured that out already.

Even more time later, I overheard a conversation with one of the lifeguards (what?! lifeguards in Spain? Yeah, I was surprised too).  Apparently, there were quite a few medusas in the area, but they weren't shutting down the beach.  I guess the lifeguards are there just for looks?

I would like to include this photo.  It was taken as I was getting kicked out of the Alhambra Sunday night.  There was some festival thing going on (yes another festival) and I didn't have tickets.