Sea turtle surfacing by a group of Cownose Rays near Clearwater, Florida: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
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Dayumm, is it breeding season as well?
aug 31, 2025, 12:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Nature is beautiful.
aug 31, 2025, 12:35 pm • 2 0 • view
My spirit animal. Thank you.🐢
aug 31, 2025, 12:48 pm • 6 0 • view
Magnificent photo.
aug 31, 2025, 2:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Overheard behind Mr. Turtle... "You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay."
aug 31, 2025, 2:57 pm • 1 0 • view
That's really wild - pun intended. 🐢 Sadly, FL is no longer a good place for humans. 😔
aug 31, 2025, 2:21 pm • 6 0 • view
The turtles shall inherit the earth.
aug 31, 2025, 2:36 pm • 5 0 • view
This is stunning and it moved me. The energy I feel just watching it almost made me weep. Thanks for sharing. ✌🏼
aug 31, 2025, 1:16 pm • 1 0 • view
😊
aug 31, 2025, 1:41 pm • 1 0 • view
So beautiful 💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞
aug 31, 2025, 10:34 pm • 1 0 • view
I like turtles
aug 31, 2025, 1:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow
aug 31, 2025, 1:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Nice...
aug 31, 2025, 12:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Holy crap! Is that normal behavior for Rays? There must be a million of them.
aug 31, 2025, 3:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Just Magnificent! 💛 🐢💛
aug 31, 2025, 2:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow that’s a lot of rays!
aug 31, 2025, 9:21 pm • 1 0 • view
I do not think there are salt water snapping turtles so if you do not look like you are a threat to the turtle then you can swim with it. Just don't touch the turtle.
sep 1, 2025, 3:34 am • 1 0 • view
Did anyone see her get out the water ?
aug 31, 2025, 10:51 pm • 1 0 • view
What the hell is a Cownose Ray?
aug 31, 2025, 12:36 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 12:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Those are just weird looking.😂 I'm assuming they are armed with some sort of barbed tail that is only used when the ray feels threatened. Nature never ceases to amaze me.
aug 31, 2025, 1:58 pm • 1 0 • view
The majority of the ones you pay $10 for 3 fish to feed to at Seaworld. They're mostly Cownose rays.
aug 31, 2025, 3:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Love this ☺️
aug 31, 2025, 7:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow. Stunning
aug 31, 2025, 5:59 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s an impressive “group”!
aug 31, 2025, 1:27 pm • 2 0 • view
So the turtle went down to the beach to catch some rays. He did good. What a beautiful place the world is.
aug 31, 2025, 9:58 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s soooo beautiful. 🐢
aug 31, 2025, 2:26 pm • 5 0 • view
I have such a special place in my heart for these beautiful creatures !
aug 31, 2025, 5:18 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s some group!
aug 31, 2025, 3:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh, Wow !
aug 31, 2025, 5:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Love to watch the fishermen when they see a struggling turtle, catch it and give it a good clean up. Removing the barnacles and seaweed. Should be good for another 5 or 6 years to the next Turtle service.
aug 31, 2025, 6:16 pm • 4 0 • view
I see lots of videos of people freeing dolphins, seals, sharks, & turtles from netting. I don't post them because I know I'll get a ton of people commenting on how we're responsible, which I am well aware of. 🙄
aug 31, 2025, 6:25 pm • 4 0 • view
I’d be on your side. Not everyone takes advantage and leaves the sea full of toxic waste and rubbish. Need a bit more high profile recognition of the extent some go to in redressing the balance. Hopefully the dissenters will think twice next time they throw rubbish away…except they won’t !
aug 31, 2025, 6:37 pm • 3 0 • view
Thank you Stevie, you make Bluesky a better place. 😄
aug 31, 2025, 7:38 pm • 2 0 • view
Would never say I’m an eco warrior, but I always try to be aware of not leaving a place in a worse state than when I found it. It’s not rocket science to pick up rubbish. It doesn’t even need to cost anything. Just think of the environment, the wildlife and the next person.
aug 31, 2025, 7:45 pm • 4 0 • view
“Take us to your leader"
aug 31, 2025, 4:03 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 7:16 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't think "group" is the right word; that's a lot of Rays 😊
aug 31, 2025, 6:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Beautiful❤️
aug 31, 2025, 8:32 pm • 1 0 • view
THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU, TURTLE, SWIM, SWIM LIKE YOUR LIKE DEPENDED ON IT!!!
aug 31, 2025, 1:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Stay safe, beautiful sea turtle! LOVE you, little turtle 🐢💓
aug 31, 2025, 6:02 pm • 1 0 • view
holy shit!
aug 31, 2025, 1:22 pm • 1 0 • view
wow !
aug 31, 2025, 4:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Whoo, amazing, thanks.
aug 31, 2025, 10:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow! Looking all those rays!!
aug 31, 2025, 4:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow
aug 31, 2025, 2:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow!!!
aug 31, 2025, 2:03 pm • 1 0 • view
I would be so scared if I were swimming and came across that mass of yuckies
aug 31, 2025, 9:38 pm • 0 0 • view
"follow me to the best seafood in town!"
aug 31, 2025, 4:25 pm • 1 0 • view
So freaking beautiful 🤩.
aug 31, 2025, 1:11 pm • 1 0 • view
One side of my brain: "How beautiful!" Other side of my brain: "aaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAaaaaa (deep breath) AAAAAAAAAA"
sep 1, 2025, 4:18 am • 1 0 • view
A group of? You mean all the rays
sep 1, 2025, 6:56 am • 1 0 • view
I need to get out more. This was the only interesting creature I’ve seen this weekend
aug 31, 2025, 6:27 pm • 1 0 • view
we really need to stop ruining this place
aug 31, 2025, 6:08 pm • 1 0 • view
That looks like a nice life. I could do that.
aug 31, 2025, 3:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow!! So many that's crazy.
aug 31, 2025, 2:35 pm • 1 0 • view
👏 Just awesome! 🫶
aug 31, 2025, 2:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow!
sep 1, 2025, 2:36 am • 1 0 • view
Wow that’s a lot of rays
aug 31, 2025, 1:13 pm • 4 0 • view
Are they mating?
aug 31, 2025, 2:59 pm • 1 0 • view
W.t.f… incredible
aug 31, 2025, 1:09 pm • 1 0 • view
We were wade fishing near the boat cut off Bolivar near Galveston, TX in waste deep water with a monster school of the cow-nosed rays went right past us. There we so many of them it seemed to last forever. It was an amazing experience.
aug 31, 2025, 2:01 pm • 13 0 • view
Wow, what an incredible experience.
aug 31, 2025, 2:04 pm • 3 0 • view
“waste deep water” says it all re Galveston Bay
aug 31, 2025, 2:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Did they touch you?
aug 31, 2025, 6:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow! Thanks for sharing.
aug 31, 2025, 6:16 pm • 1 0 • view
A look at the life cycle of Leatherback Sea Turtles and the threats that they face as a result of Human interaction and how declining numbers of Leatherbacks may in turn have a direct effect on Humans even if they never see each other. youtu.be/mGhP6FxELmo
aug 31, 2025, 12:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Wholly Hannah that’s not a group that’s a an inauguration crowd for Obama!
aug 31, 2025, 12:27 pm • 28 0 • view
😂
aug 31, 2025, 5:31 pm • 5 0 • view
Do these rays typically congregate in this way? Wow. So many rays.
aug 31, 2025, 2:20 pm • 1 0 • view
😯
aug 31, 2025, 3:41 pm • 1 0 • view
What an amazing clip
aug 31, 2025, 1:00 pm • 7 0 • view
Wow
aug 31, 2025, 3:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Phenomenal! I’ve never seen so many rays in one place
aug 31, 2025, 12:46 pm • 17 0 • view
i used to live near there. i miss the gulf.
aug 31, 2025, 4:14 pm • 1 0 • view
I was a volunteer for Fish & Wildlife on Pueto Rico. We would sit and watch for the turtles to come ashore and lay eggs. We would then measure the turles, dig up the eggs and move them to the Navy Base that was still open to protect the eggs from people stealing them.
aug 31, 2025, 11:47 am • 35 0 • view
Very cool! My cousin just retired from Fish & Wildlife. When she lived in Florida she'd fly around counting animals in the Keys.
aug 31, 2025, 11:51 am • 17 0 • view
So when the eggs grew up and returned, which place would they go?
aug 31, 2025, 9:39 pm • 2 0 • view
What was done for hatching? I was told that sea turtle hatchlings needed the experience of crawling across the beach into the water, or else they wouldn’t be able to find their way back to the beach to lay eggs.
aug 31, 2025, 6:47 pm • 1 0 • view
You are right....the eggs were place on a BEACH area of the former Roosevelt Roads navy base....there was an UNMARKED building near where the eggs were reburied....the building housed the NAVY SEALS and so NO ONE was stupid enough to try to steal the eggs...the turtles come back to that very beach.
aug 31, 2025, 7:37 pm • 3 0 • view
Why would people steal them? Pets?
aug 31, 2025, 1:15 pm • 1 0 • view
same old shit...the eggs, which back in '89 sold for $4 each, are thought to be an aphrodisiac. So as a former Combat Vet, I was allowed to have a Weapon to guard the volunteers for when the turtles came ashore...THEN we moved the eggs to the Navy Base so no one could dig them up.
aug 31, 2025, 7:42 pm • 3 0 • view
Unfortunately a lot of Caribbean islands still hunt them for food
aug 31, 2025, 2:49 pm • 1 0 • view
If they are caught doing so on Puerto Rico they get at least a 20 year prison sentence, and a prison on Puerto Rico is not like the ones in the USA mainland....
aug 31, 2025, 8:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Love sea turtles
aug 31, 2025, 2:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow!
aug 31, 2025, 4:21 pm • 1 0 • view
"He is the one!" "Leads the way!" "Follow- Follow-"
aug 31, 2025, 12:39 pm • 3 0 • view
Turtle: Follow me guys to somewhere WAY better than floriduh! 1 billion rays: Right behind ya!
aug 31, 2025, 9:26 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm from Clearwater!! That's very cool 😎
aug 31, 2025, 4:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Whooaaa and pretty cool💕
aug 31, 2025, 1:50 pm • 2 0 • view
What a beautiful swimmer!! Love that.😎
aug 31, 2025, 4:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Wow!
aug 31, 2025, 1:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Dats a lotta rays!
aug 31, 2025, 6:14 pm • 1 0 • view
A "group of rays"? We're being invaded!
aug 31, 2025, 1:14 pm • 2 0 • view
Incredible.
aug 31, 2025, 12:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Whoa! Very cool
aug 31, 2025, 5:21 pm • 1 0 • view
now that's a lot of rays!
aug 31, 2025, 9:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Cool
aug 31, 2025, 4:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Incredible
aug 31, 2025, 1:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Amazing. Sea Turtles are just beautiful. Thank you for posting.
aug 31, 2025, 2:18 pm • 3 0 • view
That’s impressive
aug 31, 2025, 12:53 pm • 4 0 • view
A bunch of Cownose Rays’? What an understatement!!
aug 31, 2025, 6:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Lovely.:)
aug 31, 2025, 2:35 pm • 2 0 • view
What a party.
sep 1, 2025, 12:09 am • 1 0 • view
You guys are boring I'm finding a livelier group!
aug 31, 2025, 6:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow 😳😳
aug 31, 2025, 10:53 pm • 1 0 • view
'A group'? Isn't that, like, all of them?
aug 31, 2025, 2:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Its calked a “fever” of sea rays ! Gorgeous aren’t they?
aug 31, 2025, 2:48 pm • 2 0 • view
❤️🙏😁 THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE GOD JESUS CHRIST, SO MAKE SURE YOU ARE SAVED IN JESUS 💗 🙏, AND DO NOT EAT ANY MEAT RIGHT NOW, YOU'VE BEEN WARNED💔🥺
aug 31, 2025, 3:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow!!
aug 31, 2025, 12:22 pm • 3 0 • view
💚
aug 31, 2025, 10:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Awesome
aug 31, 2025, 6:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow, that is wild!
aug 31, 2025, 4:02 pm • 1 0 • view
The turtle was singing "Come Sail Away" by Styx. I mean, what kind of turtle WOULDN'T follow along?
aug 31, 2025, 3:30 pm • 3 0 • view
I screwed that up.
aug 31, 2025, 3:45 pm • 1 0 • view
But I still read it as you meant it, so no worries! 😉
aug 31, 2025, 4:22 pm • 1 0 • view
The important thing is now the Styx iconic song "Come Sail Away"is stuck in your head. They said, "Come sail away, come sail away Come sail away with me Come sail away, come sail away Come sail away with me Come sail away, come sail away Come sail away with me, Come sail away, come sail away
aug 31, 2025, 4:31 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm kinda ok with that. 😉
aug 31, 2025, 5:30 pm • 0 0 • view
It's always better when you do it in a Cartman voice.
aug 31, 2025, 5:31 pm • 2 0 • view
💯🤣
aug 31, 2025, 5:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Mesmerizing
sep 1, 2025, 3:21 am • 1 0 • view
I love the bio diversity in the #GulfofMexico!
aug 31, 2025, 1:02 pm • 9 0 • view
Would that be a herd of Cownose Rays?
aug 31, 2025, 1:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Love turtles!❤️
aug 31, 2025, 4:32 pm • 1 0 • view
That's a lotta rays
aug 31, 2025, 2:21 pm • 1 0 • view
💙
aug 31, 2025, 12:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Nature is wonderful
aug 31, 2025, 3:25 pm • 3 0 • view
Everyone getting along 😻
aug 31, 2025, 12:09 pm • 4 0 • view
Are they friends?
aug 31, 2025, 5:12 pm • 1 0 • view
A "group"? That's a "solar flare" of rays ... Sure hope they have a permit - don't want the FL National Guard to get involved ...
aug 31, 2025, 4:16 pm • 3 0 • view
Amazing video. Thanks for sharing.
aug 31, 2025, 1:03 pm • 1 0 • view
A group? Looks like the whole damn population! 😜
aug 31, 2025, 6:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Great timing, thanks for sharing.
aug 31, 2025, 6:30 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s Crush!
aug 31, 2025, 4:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Awesome .. made me look up what you call a group of rays .. AI says a fever or squadron .. as they look like they are flying, I prefer the latter!! :)
aug 31, 2025, 11:46 am • 20 0 • view
“Squadron” really capture it!
aug 31, 2025, 1:26 pm • 11 0 • view
Wow!
aug 31, 2025, 1:29 pm • 1 0 • view
How incredible ❤️
aug 31, 2025, 2:39 pm • 3 0 • view
Holy shit! Do cownose rays have conventions in Florida like the rest of us?
aug 31, 2025, 1:38 pm • 1 0 • view