12:05PM Wednesday Jan 07, 2009
Michele McPherson

Thirteen people were treated for jellyfish stings in one day at the Mount Main Beach this week while veteran lifeguard Kent Jarman says the ones in the ocean at the moment are the largest he has seen.

Mr Jarman, who has patrolled the beach for 42 years, said he’d never seen specimens as big as the purple ones gliding through the Mount waters at the moment.

The largest he’d seen was 45 to 50cm in diameter, washed up on the shore on Monday.

“We’re seeing the remnants of them, like a big dinner plate lying on the beach,” he said.

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