The period between November and May when dangerous jellyfish are plentiful in northern Queensland coastal waters.
northern beaches may be closed due to stinger season
Example sentencesExamples
- We had been warned that it was stinger season and hood and gloves were needed.
- We honeymooned in the Whitsunday's and Palm Cove in April, but it was stinger season, and the beaches were all closed.
- Because we're here in stinger season, we're provided with head-to-toe stinger suits and even don football socks and gloves - our tour guide is taking no chances.
- Visitors to the Northern Territory were warned not to go in the water as the official stinger season got underway.
- If possible, wear a lycra stinger suit when swimming in northern Australian waters and do not swim in the ocean in these waters during stinger season.
- We were in Palm Cove just at the very start of stinger season.
- It was stinger season, so she wisely chose to swim in the stinger net.