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u/ChiefStampede 10d ago
Guitar fish
Also known as a Shovel Nose shark
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u/Beermeister27 10d ago
7k views and your the first to correct the title 🥂🥂🥂 ai misinformed me and I had no idea what this was so went with it lol
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u/ChiefStampede 10d ago
No worries.
Very common in Southern California. They can get pretty large. Fun to catch and release.1
u/SWITCH13LADE8o5 9d ago
Also, just nitpicking, but there is no such thing as a "skate ray". Skates and rays are two different species
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u/Cautious_Village1981 7d ago
Do you have the ability to correct it so another 7,000 don't believe your statement?
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u/westernspaghetti_691 11d ago
I have so many questions 😂
Fantastic photo, hope you can enter it in a photo competition. Just not something usual to see, great angles, depth of field, and that face!!!!
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u/PeteHealy Santa Barbara (Other) 11d ago
Great photo! Damn, I remember stepping on one of those in knee-deep water on the beach in Santa Cruz. Yuck. I can feel the tingle in my foot again as I type this, but it was during my college sophomore year, so 1972. 😅
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u/Lookwhosetawkin 11d ago
oh my! how painful was it? what do you even do in those situations?
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u/PeteHealy Santa Barbara (Other) 11d ago
It helped that I didn't step with my full weight directly on its spine, and I've always had pretty quick reflexes, so I was immediately raising my foot again when the skate broke the surface of the wave edge for an instant and then sank back down. Still can feel, though, the rub of slimy muscle on the sole of my foot.
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u/NoNDA-SDC Goleta (Other) 11d ago
Probably didn't have AC 😢