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Grand Cayman
Stingrays and Eagle Rays
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The Spotted
Eagle Ray is one of the most graceful creatures I have ever seen. In the video
on the next page you see one finding
something to eat (crustacean or fish) under the sand and devour it. It is about
6 feet across and has a tail about 6 feet long.
Beautiful.
Spotted Eagle Ray
Eagle Ray feeding
Spotted Eagle Ray
Click here to see a video of this Eagle Ray
feeding
The following few pictures are
from scuba
diving with Southern Stingrays and Moray Eel at Stingray City in Grand Cayman.
When coming back from fishing the fishermen would clean their fish just inside
the reef in the shallows of this bay. When they threw the extra overboard, the
stingrays would get a free meal. Eventually they came to expect this and hang
show up when they smell squid or hear a boat engine. It's a pretty crazy place
when there are 5 or more cruise ships in town! We went in the afternoon when
the crowd was gone and we actually did not feed the fish (stingrays are fish)
but the guide had some shopped up squid in a bottle with small holes that they
tried to get into.
The rays are the Southern Stingray and the females are about 5 feet across and
the males about 2 feet across.
Southern Stingray
Southern Sting Ray
Southern Sting Ray at Stingray City
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