Off the coast of Cayman is an area called Stingray City. The history behind it is that fishermen would clean their fish here, Stingray's discovered this and got into the habit of coming to this area every time the Stingray's saw a boat - like Pavlov's dogs. Cayman started marketing this as a tourist destination.
In the video...not sure if you can see it, but the Stingray are easily 4 to 5 feet wide and 2 to 3 feet long...not including their tail. They are North Atlantic Stingray...and are very sweet creatures. Each has a slightly different personality. Their bottom side is very soft...like a babies butt and their top side is like sand paper, some are softer than others.
It is a little intimidating at first...they are very large creatures and when they swim at you it looks like they will knock you over, but their wings slide right over your body. Only once in a while when we were there did they accidentally push you and only because the mass part of their body hit you.
As our boat approached this sandbar and anchored you could see all the Stingray's swimming over to us. In the video there is probably easily 20 to 25 Stingray's around us. The little Stingray are boys and the big ones are girls. Kevin is taking the video and the Captain gave me some Octopus to feed the Stingray's, but they get really excited when they are being fed and it freaked me out. I had just got into the water and I was a little overwhelmed by them.
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