This summer we traveled to Kemah, TX for a Mommy and Jordan adventure. There was a wonderful stingray exhibit on the boardwalk. You could buy trays of shrimp, then you were set free to follow instructions for feeding the animals from posters on the walls.Feeding a Stingray
1. Keeping fingers tucked under, place shrimp between middle and ring finger
3. Place hand under the water up against the wall with shrimp sticking out
4. Let stingray swim up and suck it from between your fingers
( Don't think that is exactly how it was written, but that is what I remember)
What we discovered: Stingrays are hungry
They feel slimy on the top
They will swim right up over the edge and flap around getting you soaked
Grown men and women are afraid to stick their hands into that water and will run away screaming when the stingrays hop up and flap around (wish we had gotten videos of the screaming)
After watching Jordan feed the rays a grown man gave Jordan his tray of shrimp (after paying $6) because he was too frightened to feed the stingrays
Stingrays have a mouth on their underside
In order to get food from you they hop up with their scary mouth showing and make this awful slurping noise as they try to suck the shrimp from your tray.
Stingrays have teeth.
(Jordan got her poor little finger sucked into the mouth of a stingray, and he drew blood) She persevered! She continued to amaze all nearby as she fearlessly helped everyone empty their shrimp trays. She gave up on sticking her hand under and waited till the hungry stingrays hopped up and flapped around, slurping, and she would slide the shrimp across the top of the wall into the scary teeth-filled mouths.
I couldn't stop smiling.
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