Ocean Drive

I was going to go the library for some quiet reading, but said, “screw it,” and headed for the beach. My route took me down Ocean Dr which is kind of like the rich part of Corpus; all I can say is is I want a house there…I’ll pay the hurricane insurance! It was a beautiful drive that eventually took me down to the beach. The place I originally stopped didn’t have the showers so I continued on…I eventually found the place I was looking for and while wading out in the water I had a nice conversation with a guy who hadn’t been back to corpus in 10 years. Something odd I found in the water were these balls that looked like whiffle balls, but had spikes on one side. There were two sizes: one the size of a ping pong ball, the other the six of a softball. The softball size were all over the pier. I thought they were part of a buoy rope at first, but noticed there was no rope. Since I didn’t know what they were, I did my best to steer clear of them, but I think one got me in the side…stung like he’ll and swole up. I slathered some of that hydrocortisol from and the swelling went down an the burning went away, but you can still see marks. I’m going to have to research jellyfish, but if this was one, it isn’t one I’ve ever heard of before.