Stingray season is here! May through October is the time of year when two things happen that increase injuries caused by stingrays. Stingrays move into shallow waters in large numbers. More people are in the water during the warmer months. If you’re going into the Gulf of Mexico, the bay waters, or the Atlantic Ocean […]
As we were walking along Madeira Beach today, watching the Gulf Coast Standup Paddleboard Championship, we enjoyed watching a school of Cownose rays swimming in the shallow water. Of course everyone thought they were stingrays. The Cownose ray does not have the habit of sitting quietly on the sea floor waiting to be stepped on, […]
When most people think of rays, they think of stingrays that sit quietly on the bottom and wait to be stepped on. But cownose rays are a lot easier to see than stingrays because they often swim in large schools near the surface of the water. They will swim up and down the beach during […]
