Sentences with phrase «turtle grass in»

A male rainbow parrotfish patrols a bed of turtle grass in Hol Chan Marine Reserve.

One of the things that grows on the rotting blades is a slime mold that in the 1980s laid waste to vast beds of turtle grass in Florida Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.

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We study them for a long moment, then wade onto the flat, sinking ankle deep in the muck and the slimy turtle grass.

Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summertime; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snowshoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.

I'd let her out of the cardboard produce box to roam a bit in the cut grass, and I drew turtle pics of her to hang in my room.

Akumal — which means «place of the turtles» in Mayan — is a nesting and feeding site for green and loggerhead turtles which graze on the sea grasses found off the Yucatan coast.

«No shoes, no shirt, no worries» is the infamous motto for the Cayes off the east coast of Belize, and you will have the opportunity to discover infamous barrier reefs, dive the Blue Hole in your free time, marvel at an extraordinary array of colourful reef fish and rays, sea urchins, anemones, octopus and even sea turtles feed at luxuriant sea grass beds.

White sand bottoms with occasional patches of turtle grass provide an unbelievable background to make these fish very visible in the shallow water.

Many come to the turtle grass mats in the channel to feed, while others, such as sharptail eels, are most frequently spotted in the large coral heads behind the wall.

Over 160 species of fish have been recorded in the reserve, along with forty types of coral, five species of sponge, two sea grasses, three species of sea turtle and three marine mammals.

had to walk over some turtle grass / seaweed in some areas but it was fun to explore.

Even on the «everyone does it» afternoon snorkel tour out of San Pedro to Hol Chan Marine Reserve, we spotted countless fish, a moray eel, stingrays, multiple species of coral and a group of turtles foraging in the sea grass — and that's not counting the side trip to Shark Ray Alley to swim with nurse sharks and stingrays.

Given the close cultural connection between the natural environment and Islander culture, habitat change that impacts significant fauna (for example, reduction in turtle nesting beaches, migratory bird foraging or sea grass bed decline) is likely to affect Islanders» mental well - being.