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08-29-2008, 06:13 AM | #1 |
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Photos, Mass Migration of Golder Rays
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08-29-2008, 06:30 AM | #2 |
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Incredible... what a sight that had to have been.
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08-29-2008, 07:59 AM | #3 |
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Re: Photos, Mass Migration of Golder Rays
Very cool!
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08-29-2008, 09:23 AM | #4 |
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Re: Photos, Mass Migration of Golder Rays
We get cownose rays like that around the Big Bend powerplant in the wintertime (schools bigger than a football field). Of course the visibility is only 3'.
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08-29-2008, 09:42 AM | #5 |
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Re: Photos, Mass Migration of Golder Rays
wow, interesting,!
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08-29-2008, 09:56 AM | #6 |
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Re: Photos, Mass Migration of Golder Rays
That's not something you see everyday.
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08-29-2008, 10:20 AM | #7 |
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Re: Photos, Mass Migration of Golder Rays
my father saw something very similar just outside of Charlotte Harbour last year. He said it was the most amazing thing he'd ever seen on the water....
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08-29-2008, 10:25 AM | #8 |
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Re: Photos, Mass Migration of Golder Rays
Nice Pic!!!
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08-29-2008, 10:46 AM | #9 |
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Re: Photos, Mass Migration of Golder Rays
We get schools of rays like that in Tampa Bay in the summer. I think ours are actually skates. Pretty cool except for the schools of sharks that follow them
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08-31-2008, 07:51 PM | #10 |
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Re: Photos, Mass Migration of Golder Rays
Smilinmatt and RedTide, I was about to say the same thing. I've seen a good deal of those in tampabay. I know they have some at the Florida Aquarium, and I think even at Tropicana Field.
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08-31-2008, 08:00 PM | #11 |
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Way Cool photos... I cant imagine the feeling of seeing that for real...has to be absolutely spectacular!!
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10-21-2008, 08:39 AM | #12 |
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Re: Photos, Mass Migration of Golder Rays
I've actually experienced this!!
I was diving in Costa Rica and while under water heard the dive master going crazy on his underwater alert... I looked up ahead of me and flying? right towards me in my direction was a herd of migrating cow rays: As far up in the water column as I could see, as far down, to the left, to the right.... They were moving gracefully toward me in a slow wall-like formation. I stopped and floated in the blue, and as they approached, the herd separated around me. They parted as if on cue - splitting themselves to gracefully drift around me and then gently rejoining together as they passed by. Within a minute they were all gone. Definitely an unforgettable moment. Later in the same dive I saw my first Manta Ray which circled so close over my head that I was a few feet from touching her belly. And then.... later.... in the same dive.... I heard HUMPBACK WHALES singing in the distance. My eyes are tearing up just thinking about that dive. Oy vei, I'm such a chick!
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10-21-2008, 11:04 AM | #13 |
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Re: Photos, Mass Migration of Golder Rays
I'm not sure what kind of rays they were, but I saw a school like that in Mex last year, we were in several hundred feet of water and it looked like they were the ocean floor from a ways away, because they were so close together
really cool
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