Bigger things: Turtles, Eagle Rays and Eels

Bigger things: Turtles , Eagle Rays and Eels
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Notes

There are plenty of fish and mammals that are as large, or larger, than man. Fortunately we didn't come across too many of them - only the Eagle Rays were bigger (the sharks we saw were baby Black-tip Reef sharks - though I don't know where their parents were...). Here are some of the bigger things we saw.

Comments on images (numbered from top left to bottom right):

1/ A Hawksbill Turtle and a pair of Head-band Butterflyfish.
2/ A Hawksbill Turtle, gracefully diving. This Turtle was around a metre long.
3/ A Green Turtle (endangered) - this picture from Hawaii.
4/ A Spotted Eagle-Ray, swimming through cloudy plankton-rich water. This ray was over a metre across, and 2 metres long.
5/ Five Spotted Eagle Rays, gracefully "flying" like birds through the water.
6/ A Giant Moray Eel (head on the right). Also in the photograph are some Cleaner-Wrasse (towards the back of the Eel), and some Green Chromis.

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