Bluebottles and Surfers
A little time ago Sydney people were smiling in a friendly way over •the invasion of Victorian waters by crabs. They wondered whether the bathing resorts would be effected. Now Sydney has an aff fiction, and there are no smiles associated with it. It infests the surfing resorts and temporarily incapacitates hundreds of persons- The , number may be thousands, for from all ocean beaches duririg the last month, ever since the surfing season began there has been suffering from folue bottles, which come in thousands on each tide. Surfers spealc of the attacks of bluebo.ttles, but there is no attack. The surfer makes contact with them while in the breakers, and then, almost crying with pain, speeds for the shore to be rubbed with sand or a • blue-bag or to receive some other treatment which the members of the life-saving clubs have available. The effects of the injury may endure for a week or more. It is said by some people who claim to know that one experience of the kind inoculates the sufferer with a poison and makes him immune in future, but others of long experience declare that this belief is misleading.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 727, 30 December 1933, Page 6
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197Bluebottles and Surfers Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 727, 30 December 1933, Page 6
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