Saturday, April 07, 2001 1:56 PM, Reef Fish wrote:

> Busy shuttling between SC and TN this year, I've forgotten about the
> newly discovered phenom of LARGE groups of spotted eagle rays in
> Cozumel around the first couple of months of the year, for their
> annual pilgrimmage to mate there.

snip)

> Alas, if I had thought about it, I probably would have taken a trip
> down there just for that about-to-disappear phenomenon of
> Squadrons of Eagle Rays in Coz.

That'd surely be a sight worth seeing - and it highlights the fact that we
don't necessarily have to set to hunt and kill critters to upset the natural
order of things!

>My video (a nicely done 10-minute
> segment, by a local with whom I dived) may turned out to be a
> "collector's item" soon, and MAY be worth as much as Strike's
> one square-inch of real estate in Hong Kong!  :-)

I suspect it may be worth more.  The land'll always be there - the eagle
rays may not!  :-(

Strike