Mass migration of Stingrays



Can you IMAGINE seeing this in person? Awesome........


Looking like giant leaves floating in the sea thousands of Golden Rays are seen here 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 experienced nature at his 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

13 who am I - questions:

  [SK]

April 30, 2009 at 5:17 PM

that is awesome, how i wish i could see that with my bare eyes!! perhaps they wanted to avoid the Swine Flu?? hehe :p

 

April 30, 2009 at 5:23 PM

hehe~ maybe lo...
but i think this is really awesome, so i wanna share with every bloggers :)

  牛奶 Milk

April 30, 2009 at 5:37 PM

Think i have seen this picture before, its amazing how everything looks so symmetrically patterned on move...

  .:: Ant ::.

April 30, 2009 at 6:11 PM

Wow! the pic taken are like a piece of nature's art in fine splendour.

Nice!
+Ant+

  Little Prince

April 30, 2009 at 7:02 PM

WA...

  ~eRiC~

April 30, 2009 at 7:06 PM

at first, i thought you witness this yourself.i was like wow...haha

  KhaO-LAr-sEXy-PRESS

April 30, 2009 at 7:47 PM

aih, samuel be a fish. :P which 1? all same 1. hehe...

  yee

April 30, 2009 at 9:07 PM

NICE

  Anonymous

April 30, 2009 at 9:42 PM

Walao... The stingrays looked horrible... Damn scary!!!

  the viennamese

May 2, 2009 at 2:42 AM

Beatiful...

Ikan bakar..... mmmm.....~
*hungry*

  ^^WiLLY LaM^^

May 3, 2009 at 4:11 PM

beautiful ikan bakar LMAO

  TZ

May 4, 2009 at 9:18 AM

beautiful but dangerous ... Ermmmmm maybe can get a few for ikan bakar ... yum yum!

  ryan小王子

May 6, 2009 at 10:19 PM

wah!!! i like to eat sting ray !!! haha :P
probabbly they were escaping from the H1N1 in Mexico now. haha