Sunrises and Days of Rays

 I just can't stop taking pictures of the sunrises - the magnificent ones are one about every 2 weeks so I take full advantage when they come!

And then there's the manta rays - which are actually mobula rays!  When the water temperature changes to warmer in the spring, they arrive!  They come to Baja to mate and reproduce, eating the plankton for their diet!  The rays can jump up to 9 ft above the water and do flips and somersaults - they are certainly a wonder to watch!

The sound they make as they jump and then hit the water as they come back down sounds like popcorn popping on a GRAND scale as it echoes off the ocean!  They arrived about a week ago here and woke us up early as our bedroom is beach front - it's hard to imagine the sound when there's a long string of them in the ocean which can reach up to over a kilometer long - and there can be as many as tens of thousands of them!  It's so fun to walk the beach early in the morning and watch them!  But they're around most of the day and today is the first day I haven't seen them so they might have moved on!

 

I borrowed this picture so you can get a better idea of what they look like!

Here's a video although the sound doesn't do them justice!!

We've enjoyed the rays for over a week now!  Gosh they are fun to watch!!