After a nutritious breakfast, a group snorkel session lead by our amazing professors, and lunch it was time for me to venture out on a second snorkel session. I was accompanied by my new friends Hamburger Hannah, Tomato Tegan, Kiwi Kiyanni, and Lime Liana. After submerging into the water, we started our journey towards the previous reef patches we had gone over in our earlier session. As we headed out the visibility was very low because of the freshwater current that was running through the water column. After swimming around and up and over coral patches it was time to head back in. On our way back into the dock Tomato Tegan pointed out something moving in the sand on the seafloor. When I went to look it was a Yellowtail Stingray (Urolophus jamaicensis). It was the most amazing thing I had seen all day, and I was very excited that I got to see something so special. After all of us had taken our photos, we made our way back in and ended our snorkel session on a high note.

Yellowtail Stingray on the seafloor photo taken by: Tegan

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