Posted on 03/17/2015 9:05:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Stay out of the water?
Works for me.
In Grand Cayman there is a tour that takes you to swim with stingrays (Stingray City, I think they call it). There are many...many stingrays that swim all around you. You swim with fins and goggles. I thought it was one of the most interesting tours there.
It’s snowing here. No chance of meeting up with any stingrays.
Why can’t they just put out some stingray free zone signs in the places people want to swim? Those stingrays have plenty of other areas they can use. It’s not fair.
I think I came closely stepping on a Stingray. I’m not sure if it was a Stingray. It had a clear translucent body. Not sure if Stingrays are clear. I recall running through the beach with my cousins and all of sudden, for some unknown reason, I immediately stopped and looked down and saw this thing that had a tail. I realize I almost came to stepping on it. I believe it was in the Santa Cruz Beach.
Sounds like a jellyfish. Santa Cruz, CA?
never walk. always keep your toes sliding under the sand.
I lived there for most of my life until my mid 20's and never heard of it.
Saw eagle rays scuba diving years later, sure.
Perhaps it was a Jellyfish, but it was an ugly thing I have ever seen lol. Yes it had to been at Santa Cruz because my cousins lived in San Jose at that time. I remember we picked them up and we drove down there.
Been there done that. 3 feet of water and hundreds of those things all around you. "Shuffle your feet on the sand and don't step on one" was the rule.
That’s it, slide your toe/feet under the sand as you walk; how a lot of surfers do it too in Australia.
Swim in fresh water.
I’ve never seen one and we have a boat in Ventura Harbor. We have tons of batrays and skates.
I’ve never encountered a stingray in the wild, but last time we went to the aquarium in Virginia Beach, we visited the ray tank. One of those little fellows kept swimming up to me, poking his head out of the water to be patted.
Did you oblige?
LOL, repeatedly!
Their coloration pretty much matches the background of the sand on the bottom, so it may appear that they are translucent and you're seeing the bottom through them.
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