We went for a walk along Surfer’s Paradise beach this morning, thinking we would come across some flotsam or jetsam after the awful Brisbane floods (dead cows or dead couches?). However, all we found on the sand was our old friend, the bluebottle. 

To complicate things, Although vinegar makes bluebottle stings worse, it can decrease the nermatocyst discharge from the potentially lethal Box Jellyfish and (probably) jellyfish that cause the Irukandji syndrome, and so the application of vinegar for 30 seconds is considered good first aid practice in tropical Australia.