Thursday, January 29, 2009

Migrating Stingrays

Wow.
Carly Here!!!
Was reading an email, and thought I'd open this one called "Migrating Stingrays". Opened it, SHOCKED.
AMAZING
BRILLIANT
SHOCKING
FANTASIC.
MAGNIFICENT
ELEGANT
BEUTIFUL

WOW!

Looking like giant leaves floating in the sea, thousands of Golden Rays are seen under this, gathering off the coast of Mexico . The spectacular scene was captured as the magnificent creatures made one of their biannual mass migrations to more agreeable waters. Gliding silently beneath the waves, they turned vast areas of blue water to gold off the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula . Sandra Critelli, an amateur photographer, stumbled across the phenomenon while looking for whale sharks. She said, "It was an unreal image, very difficult to describe. The surface of the water was covered by warm and different shades of gold and looked like a bed of autumn leaves gently moved by the wind. It's hard to say exactly how many there were, but in the range of a few thousand. We were surrounded by them without seeing the edge of the school and we could see many under the water surface too. I feel very fortunate I was there in the right place at the right time to experience nature at its best" Measuring up to 7ft (2.1 meters) from wing-tip to wing-tip, Golden rays are also more prosaically known as cow nose rays.
They have long, pointed pectoral fins that separate into two lobes in front of their high-domed heads and give them a cow-like appearance. Despite having poisonous stingers, they are known to be shy and non-threatening when in large schools. The population in the Gulf of Mexico migrates, in schools of as many as 10,000, clockwise from western Florida to the Yucatan .

Here are the pictures below:




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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That is SO cool...

Came across your blog through the next random blog link and saw that awesome picture!

Thanks.