Eagle ray @ Siladen
What a wonderful feeling to be diving and realize that eagle ray flies by. To me it happens quite often but this time it was special because I was dicing with my AOWD student Niels, who had his first dive after five years!
Think about the feeling when you’ve been out of the water for so long and you are dying to just be among fish friends again. And after few refresh skills you finally go diving, be like an astronaut and hover weightlessly next to vertical wall. More than one kilometer water under you. And the first creature who comes to welcome you is a beautiful spotted eagle ray. This happened in Tanjung Parigi, Bunaken, just few days ago.
What a swimmer that ray is! Unlike manta- and devil rays this ray don’t filter plankton but feeds on mollusks and crustaceans and it has longer tail. And unlike sting ray it doesn’t hide under rocks or coral but swims along the wall. So gracefully.
Heini
[...] Big stuff we can see in Barracuda point when barracudas come in huge schools, in Sachiko’s point in the afternoon when black tip- and white tip sharks, napoleons and tunas swim by, in Fukui the schools of yellow fin tunas and batfish. And almost every wall site in Bunaken we have opportunity to see the big turtles and eagle rays. [...]
By: Something for everyone « Siladen Resort and Spa, Bunaken Marine Park on September 26, 2011
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[...] here in Bunaken National Marine Park has been wonderful. We have had visits of whale shark, many eagle rays, thresher sharks, had great visibility, visitors from far away, dugongs, blue-ringed octopus and [...]
By: What a year 2011! « Siladen Resort and Spa, Bunaken Marine Park on December 29, 2011
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