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Sharks, Rays, Morays and Octopus
![This Grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) just kept beating back and forth across the current at Kuda Miaru Thila, ignoring us completely.](images/wIMG_4982.jpg)
Huge manta rays swam right over us at the Hukuru Elhi Faru manta cleaning station.
I think these are the newly-identified Resident Reef Manta Ray (Manta alfredi).
![A huge manta ray (Manta birostris) swam right over us at the Hukuru Elhi Faru manta cleaning station.](images/wIMG_4900.jpg)
![Another couple of mantas at Himandhoo Thilla. There were five of them passing and re-passing us the entire dive as they swam
up and down the reef, feedingon the plankton in the water.](images/wIMG_4653.jpg)
![There were lots of Grey reef sharks swimming about on this great dive, too.](images/wIMG_4631.jpg)
![Himandhoo Thila again. A couple of mantas glide past while a grey reef shark heads in the opposite direction.](images/wIMG_4621.jpg)
![Himandhoo Thila on a different day, but still we saw mantas for the entire dive.](images/wIMG_4615.jpg)
![A stingray, aka giant reef ray, (Taeniura melanospilos), resting on the bottom.at Bulaloi Thila.](images/wIMG_4607.jpg)
![A handsome and rather uncommon Whitemouth moray (Gymnothorax meleagris) at Hukuru Elhi Faru.](images/wIMG_4903.jpg)
![And a common Giant moray (Gymnothorax javanicus) just a few metres away.](images/wIMG_4887.jpg)
![Reef octopus (Octopus cyanea) peers out of its hidey-hole at Hukuru Elhi Faru.](images/wIMG_4884.jpg)