Wrecked sailors

They rode in with the tide
capsized
and died


By-the-wind sailors (Vellela vellela) are a form of marine life that resemble jellyfish. Their single, transparent sail-like fin  aslant their blue undercarriage catches the breeze which wafts them across the surface of the water as they trawl for minute organisms within it. But with no independent locomotion, a following wind will sometimes cast them ashore in huge drifts. These wrecked remnants I found drying on the rocks had shreds of ultramarine still clinging to them,  vestiges of their oceanic existence.

Read about them here.