Visitors taking a walk along the South Padre Island shoreline have reported seeing the beach dotted with many jellyfish.

Melissa Fryatt was among those unlucky enough to get stung. She described what she felt as a sharp pain on her leg.

“I brushed it away and then it came back toward me and touched my other leg,” Fryatt said.

Fryatt was likely stung by a moon jellyfish, which is the species of jellyfish most beachgoers have reported seeing.

Experts with the Gladys Porter Zoo said the sight of hundreds of jellyfish washing ashore is a normal occurrence.

Kat Thompson-Hawk is the zoo's curator of aquatics, and referred to the occurrence as a jellyfish bloom. She said this happens when the creatures develop into adults.

“Then when we have the onshore wind and the currents, and then when

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