So how many of you have been stung by these buggers?
The Bluebottle, also known as IndoPacific and Portuguese Man o'War,
is a common, if unwelcome, summer visitor to Sydney beaches.
At the mercy of the wind, they are sometimes blown into shallow waters, and often wash up onto the beach.
On the eastern coast of Australia, it is the NE winds and warmer currents that bring them and other organisms that make up the armada or fleets of blue coloured floating colonial cnidarians and their predators, to beaches on the incoming tides.