Blue Sea Things

[propergomper]

I have just returned from a holiday in Majorca (Cala Egos) One evening around 7pm these blue jelly fish type creatures (100s of them) washed up on the beach.
I just wondered what they are and why they washed up as there was no really any tide.
Thanks in advance.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/doolally447/

[jason.p]

Just got back from Menorca and saw the same things. They are Velella vellela,the"by the wind sailor. They've been observed aound our own coasts and California.

[garner]

There has been hundreds washed up around the cornish coastline.

[propergomper]

Thanks both of you they are a strange thing.