Cruising

by wjw on February 1, 2025

Here’s a spotted eagle ray cruising over the reef in the Turks and/or Caicos, 2016.

Eagle rays are impressive, with their ten-foot wing span, but they don’t hang around for long. They’re both fast and shy, and if they see divers in their vicinity, they’re out of sight very quickly. They’re pelagic fishes, living in the deep ocean, and only hang around islands and reefs if they happen to run into them on their travels in the Big Blue.

This one zoomed past, giving us only a few seconds to admire it, but then our guide Bob pointed a course orthogonal to the path of the ray, and we followed him along it. It seems that eagle rays will often circle back once they’re out of sight of intruders, and so we got another look at it as it crossed our track. Awesome.

Picture by photo pro Troy.

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