This is simply amazing!

Amature photographer Sandra Citrelli stumbled upon this mass migration of the golden rays as she was searching for whale sharks off the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula.

She said: “It was an unreal image, very difficult to describe. The surface of the water was covered by warm and different shades of gold and looked like a bed of autumn leaves gently moved by the wind.

“It’s hard to say exactly how many there were but in the range of a few thousand.

“We were surrounded by them without seeing the edge of the school and we could see many under the water surface too.

“I feel very fortunate I was there in the right place at the right time to experienced nature at his best.”

Measuring up to 7ft (2.1 metres) from wing-tip to wing-tip, Golden rays are also more prosaically known as cow nose rays.

(Information and pictures are from telegraph.co.uk)

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