Look what turned up in the bay below the research station

I was extremely excited to hear that there are rays in the bay, just below the meeting room at the Charles Darwin Station.  I was sitting on the dock, watching the ships coming in and going out again, when in the shallow receding water, this appeared.

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Marbeled ray (Taeniurops meyeni), sitting inside the rim of a submerged tyre

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I haven’t been lucky enough, yet, to see a ray while underwater, swimming.  I will have my ‘Not-a-GoPro’ with me when next I am in, and now I know where I might be able to spot a ray!

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