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  • Moray eels, garfish and trumpetfish were roaming and snapping at a plethora of potential prey.
  • With its elongated snake-like body, the Leopard Moray eel moves very gently from one end to the other in the tank.
  • Moray eels, nudibranchs, stingrays, shellfish, sea urchins and sea stars were out and about, while the polyps of black corals and other gorgonians were feeding.
  • I was proud to be involved in the campaign for a maternity unit for Moray.
  • On four dives there we would see a hawksbill turtle, huge parrotfish, various morays ranging from massive to tiny, jack, snapper, batfish and numerous other species.
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  • There were plenty of fish: blue-striped grunts, moray eels, butterflyfish, bright yellow trumpetfish and multi-coloured wrasse.
  • Scientists have observed a dolphin trying to get a reluctant moray eel to come out of its crevice by poking it with the spiny body of a dead scorpionfish.
  • Nationalist stalwarts foregather in Elgin tonight to adopt their candidate for the forthcoming Moray by-election, now declared for April 27.
  • This was typical Red Sea diving, rich with corals and sponges and teeming with fish, one coral head housing a couple of morays that had been there for more than 11 years.
  • The cottages have windows in the floors that reveal a rich parade of marine life: bonefish, jacks, garfish and whip morays.
  • The ray-finned fishes would seem a little more familiar than the placoderms, having scales instead of armor plates, with a look of the moray eel to them.
  • In 1390, on Robert II's death, Buchan and his caterans burned Forres, and then Elgin burgh and cathedral, in reprisals for Moray's actions.
  • Graceful moray eels, deadly great white sharks, playful porpoises, and tiny crabs show up along the way, all to the enchanting tune of Serra's bouncy music score.
  • The hazards facing them include snakes, poisonous fish and fruit, reef sharks, moray eels, stingrays, fire coral, mosquitoes, bats, fire ants, rats and wild pigs.
  • Morayshire is the heart of the whisky industry and you can take the famous Whisky Trail to seven distinctive malt whisky distilleries.
  • The name is derived from the Gaelic and refers to the town of Cullen in Moray and the word for shin or shank which developed the secondary meaning of soup. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Waysiders will accompany Moray out of Division Five after only drawing 5-5 in their final match at Glenrothes.
  • The views were extensive, out over the haughs of Abernethy and Cromdale towards the waters of the Moray Firth.
  • All day Saturday they had been alternately playing and fighting with Heather and Stephanie, Moray's wee sisters, in the house and round the garden while their mums drank coffee and blethered in the kitchen and their dads hit into a force eight on the links. Quite Ugly One Morning
  • Little marine life has been attracted to the wreck, apart from the odd moray eel and scorpionfish and a shoal of cardinalfish buzzing around the cockpit.
  • You get turtles, moray eels and titan triggerfish but not the variety of reef fish in the Red Sea or Indonesia, says John Bantin.
  • Amid the coral and sponge branches you will find hamlets, basslets, parrotfish and moray eels.
  • The pebbles, like those of the boulder-clay of the northern side of the Moray Frith, are chiefly of the primary rocks and older sandstones, and were probably in the neighborhood, in their present rolled form, long ere the re-formation of the inclosing mass; while the shale and the septaria are, as shown by their fossils, decidedly Liasic. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
  • Scientists have observed a dolphin trying to get a reluctant moray eel to come out of its crevice by poking it with the spiny body of a dead scorpionfish.
  • Coral outcrops and pinnacles are home to moray eels, scorpionfish and blue-spotted rays. Globe and Mail
  • It is another country - on the dive we see angelfish, tarpon, grouper and moray eels.
  • An immature moray eel is called a leptocephalus, Latin for "small head. Starbulletin Headlines
  • Two former RAF bases have been refurbished for the regiments returning to the UK: RAF Cottesmore in Rutland, and RAF Kinloss on the Moray Firth. UK troops to withdraw from Germany by end of decade under MoD plans
  • Nationalist stalwarts foregather in Elgin tonight to adopt their candidate for the forthcoming Moray by-election, now declared for April 27.
  • Around the pinnacles, lionfish and coral groupers lay ready to apprehend stragglers from the shoals of sweepers, while yellow-mouthed moray eels poked their heads from gaps in the coral as I passed.
  • The fish stalls sell pilchards, mackerel and squid, which are the best baits for general ledger fishing, taking most species including conger and moray eels.
  • In 1568 however, following the Battle of Langside, in which William Chancellor fought in the cause of Queen Mary, Regent Moray sent out a party of 500 horsemen to destroy the mansions, castles and fortalices of her adherents.
  • Smith, almost blind, sat down and memorised the piano part; he was joined by the cellist Moray Welsh and James Clark, concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
  • Especially in the province of Moray, there were also feudal groups which adopted clanship.
  • Although this wreck is relatively new, it has already attracted numerous species of fish including, squirrelfish and filefish, along with visits from morays and occasional reef sharks. WN.com - Articles related to Changi Airport Cargo Growth Slows
  • Divers with torches may be fortunate enough to cast their lights onto morays under rocky overhangs.
  • On a typical dive you will see octopus, batfish, turtles, groupers, jacks, morays, barracuda, horse-eye jacks, angel-fish and rays.
  • Here we found lionfish, moray eels and sweepers.
  • The 65,000 ton carrier, with warships and support vessels, anchored outside British territorial waters some 30 miles off the Moray Firth, in Scotland. British Destroyer 'Keeps Watch' on Russian Carrier
  • Back outside the day centre in Inverness, a chill wind blew off the Moray Firth, a foretaste of the approaching winter.
  • thanage"; the Celtic king (_righ_) of the tribe became the thane; the province or group of tribes (say Moray) became the earldom; the Celtic A Short History of Scotland
  • There were plenty of fish: blue-striped grunts, moray eels, butterflyfish, bright yellow trumpetfish and multi-coloured wrasse.
  • We missed the hammerheads, but enormous moray eels gaped at us from their rocky lairs.
  • Check out Moray McLaren's "We Got Time" video, with animation drawn and created by director David Wilson: Using the 19th century technology of the praxinoscope, Wilson was able to create wonderful bits of animation with no assisting from the computer (well, no animation from the computer). LCSV4
  • They seek shelter at night in crevices hiding from predators such as moray eel and various sharks.
  • Below the wall was a flat plain where we saw kingfish, a large moray eel and a shoal of tuna.
  • A battle took place on 30 April, 1690, in which a Jacobite force was routed on the low ground (haughs) at Cromdale in Morayshire by government forces.
  • Lobsters, moray eels and squirrelfish seek refuge in the artificial reef made up of PVC pipes.
  • A night dive on the house reef revealed spiny lobsters and red crabs, morays, scorpionfish and lionfish.
  • No sea cows or bovines here, but we spotted puffer fish and a giant moray and plenty of groupers.
  • Military sources here say Taiwan's navy favors German 209-class submarines or Dutch-designed Moray subs.
  • Having soon blown a film on these shoals and the occasional diversion of singletons like a moray eel, a porcupine pufferfish and a variety of grouper, I turn to the other reef life.
  • There must have been at least half a dozen pepper morays, and we spotted a tiny juvenile boxfish hiding under the starboard side and looking like nothing so much as a bright yellow dice, less than the size of a thumbnail.
  • Other tanks in the exhibition will house a variety of eels, from razor-toother morays to a colony of distinctive garden eels, which anchor themselves in burrows with the tops of their tails and stand vertically like strands of seaweed.
  • A shallow-water Caribbean tank showcases a green moray eel, gobies, and collections of Caribbean algae.
  • Back outside the day centre in Inverness, a chill wind blew off the Moray Firth, a foretaste of the approaching winter.
  • She was born Kathleen Eileen Moray in 1878, in County Wexford, Ireland, but when her mother inherited a peerage in Scotland to become Baroness Gray, the family changed its name.
  • I met my first goldentail moray while free swimming between coral heads, and discovered a peacock flounder with its head in the sand.
  • Well, Elgin would have been forced into rising with the milkman had they departed Moray at some ungodly hour for an earlier start.
  • Roads of a sort, fitfully maintained by statute-labour, existed in an arc from the Moray Firth to the central belt, but were often so primitive, rutted, or miry that they got worse as traffic increased.
  • He was called a valiant and a hardy man and did so much by his prowess, that under the banner of the earl of Moray he did such valiantness in arms, that the Scots had marvel thereof, and so was slain in fighting: the Scots would gladly have taken him alive, but he would never yield, he hoped ever to have been rescued. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
  • Grass and sand by the Moray Firth, where fertile farmland was buried in sand by a persistent storm in October 1694. Weatherwatch: A storm that made a desert on the Moray Firth
  • There are numerous varieties of shrimps, juvenile morays, and a collection of shells including tiger cowries.
  • Larger fish life includes moray eels, skipjacks, lobster, napoleons, barracuda, turtles, tuna and sharks, especially the grey reef variety.
  • As a result of reduced exploration activity, Moray Firth Service Company achieved a disappointing 173 rig days during the year.
  • A few holes offer the only relief, and even these are inhabited by juvenile green morays.
  • Glide into a deep blue abyss alive with bright small fish species, moray eels and madrepores.
  • History gives him but one wife, Morayma, the daughter of the veteran alcayde of Loxa, old Aliatar, famous in song and story for his exploits in border warfare; and who fell in that disastrous foray into the Christian lands in which Boabdil was taken prisoner. The Alhambra
  • Moray eels, garfish and trumpetfish were roaming and snapping at a plethora of potential prey.
  • All the familiar reef fish are there plus morays, sting rays, you name it.
  • Over the week they were rewarded by the sight of slumbering nurse sharks, moray eels, hawksbill turtles, stingrays, bounteous barracuda, big solitary midnight parrotfish and African pompano.
  • It's the end of a stealthy march by Lochaber clansmen through the quiet backwaters of the old district of Badenoch, a journey that took them towards the rich pastures, and rich pickings, of Morayshire.
  • There are also several green moray eels along the reef ledge.
  • Grouper, anemonefish and small morays jostled for position in this kaleidoscopic garden of coral, with some brightly coloured nudibranchs and small shrimp adding to the mix.
  • Take a look inside them - they are home to moray eels, shrimps, sleeping gobies and pufferfish.
  • Over the week they were rewarded by the sight of slumbering nurse sharks, moray eels, hawksbill turtles, stingrays, bounteous barracuda, big solitary midnight parrotfish and African pompano.
  • They allegedly had a very close encounter with a creature like a giant moray eel, which literally scared them out of the water.
  • The larva of moray eels, called leptocephalus, get distributed throughout the oceans. Livescience.com
  • The fish stalls sell pilchards, mackerel and squid, which are the best baits for general ledger fishing, taking most species including conger and moray eels.
  • Gullies in the reefs were home to morays, lobster and the occasional crab.
  • The morays are fed regularly and come right into the open.
  • Like the Lower Old Red Sandstones of Cromarty and Moray, the red arenaceous strata occur in thick beds, separated from each other by bands of a grayish-colored stratified clay, on the planes of which I could trace with great distinctness ripple markings; but in vain did I explore their numerous folds for the plates, scales, and fucoid impressions which abound in the gray argillaceous beds of the shores of the Moray and Cromarty Friths. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
  • With two rounds of projects in operation or being built, the government in January awarded a third round of licenses, for nine enormous wind farms stretching from Scotland's Moray Firth to the Isle of Wight in southern England. Headwinds Buffet Green Energy Rush
  • The military is detaining people incommunicado, which is illegal, and so it is effectively disappearing people," said Heba Morayef of NYT > Home Page
  • The hotel is situated on the sheltered shores of the Moray Firth.
  • There are many eels, particularly on the more broken wreck, and morays and congers live in holes almost next door to each other.
  • I felt like Alice through the looking glass, enjoying the sublime sea's surreal realm, a marine dominion ruled by stingrays, dolphins, Napoleons, moray eels.
  • Huge shoals of orange anthias sway in and out of the colourful soft corals while honeycomb moray eels peek out from holes in the coral gap.
  • Morays then eat these fish and their flesh becomes toxic.
  • Among the dangerous creatures were moray eels, ‘and triggerfish nibbled at her feet‘.
  • Large fish such as groupers and moray eels can often be found resting next to a colony of shrimps, which flit out and crawl over the fish's skin while cleaning it.
  • Moray eels shout at you in silent warning from their crevices and rays have been known to turn somersault.
  • Parrotfish, morays and groupers swim in these seas, and divers can swim alongside.
  • It is a relative easy, shallow dive with a maximum depth of about 45 ft, with nice hard coral formation and friendly batfish and moray eels.
  • As a child growing up in Moray, Caledonian Thistle's manager was nicknamed Pele because of the precocious talent which saw him signed by Manchester United as a 15-year-old.
  • The Moray Firth near Inverness is an unlikely location for a "Scottish desert", but that was the local name for Culbin district near the mouth of the Findhorn river before the Forestry Commission planted it with fir trees and stabilized the sand dunes. Weatherwatch: A storm that made a desert on the Moray Firth
  • It is guarded by a large resident moray eel and jewfish.
  • Coral outcrops and pinnacles are home to moray eels, scorpionfish and blue-spotted rays. Globe and Mail
  • Moray eels seem to poke their dark heads from every crevice and are often caught out in the open, their yellow and brown speckled bodies snake-like and coiled, ready for a sudden dash for cover.
  • The warm water moray eel is also caught from time to time, although this is a mottled fish with a pointed face, very different from the steely grey of the conger.
  • The rocky reefs and the small caverns formed within them are home to groupers, moray and conger eels, scorpionfish, many octopuses and the occasional spiny lobster.
  • As early as 1665 Robert Moray had announced that Robert Hooke had lectured for the Royal Society about providing the balance of a clock with a spring.
  • No discussion, no explanation, in fact he had almost as little idea of what was going on as the flight lieutenant, but station commanders tucked up here on the Moray Firth had to be adaptable. The Edge of Madness
  • What's unusual about the effort is its dimensions: While existing offshore wind projects tend to be in shallow waters close to the coast, the Moray Firth venture is expected to culminate in the first offshore wind farm in deep water (150 feet) far from land (15 miles). Can Wind Power Find Its Footing in the Deep?
  • Pat tries to quell her feelings for Bruce, her vain egoist of a flatmate, while navigating the purpose and ethics of naturism at a nudist picnic in Moray Place Gardens.
  • Most morays are thought to be nocturnal but some are known to hunt during the day.
  • Moray, of March, and Dunbar [1] departed from the great host, they took their way thinking to pass the water and to enter into the bishopric of Durham, and to ride to the town and then to return, brenning and exiling the country and so to come to Newcastle and to lodge there in the town in the despite of all the Englishmen. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
  • Groupers and morays are common, lobsters can be seen in season and we encountered a common guitarfish.
  • Captured in Dumbarton castle in 1571 after Mary's cause had collapsed, he was accused of complicity in the murders of Darnley and of Moray, and hanged at Stirling.
  • Among the damaged coral we saw free-swimming moray eels, octopuses, and several anemones with their resident clownfish.
  • Morays, congers, scorpionfish, parrot fish, damsel fish, most of the 20 different species of wrasse found in the Med, cardinal fish, saupe, corb and langouste all make regular appearances on dives in the reserve.
  • The Scottish government is considering reviewing the existing oil spill policy for cetaceans in the Moray Firth, which is currently inadequate and would do little to protect individuals should a spill occur. Business Wire Travel News
  • Moray eels, garfish and trumpetfish were roaming and snapping at a plethora of potential prey.
  • Richelieu also features numerous ledges, crevices and small caverns, providing shelter for squirrelfish, soldierfish, copper sweepers, and over twelve species of moray eels, including the rare golden moray.
  • Nationalist stalwarts foregather in Elgin tonight to adopt their candidate for the forthcoming Moray by-election, now declared for April 27.
  • He then took possession of the lands of the jarldom; and, from having taught the people of Turfness in Moray the use of turf or peat for fuel, was known thenceforward as Torf-Einar. Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns
  • A recent hearing of anemometry masts as a forerunner to an ‘industrial development’ (wind farm) had 164 objectors and a hearing in Elgin by Moray Council for Drummuir had over 120.
  • The rocky reefs and the small caverns formed within them are home to groupers, moray and conger eels, scorpionfish, many octopus and the occasional spiny lobster.
  • Anyone who has seen film of the Moray Firth dolphins beating up harbour porpoises will also be aware that we humans, by comparison with porpoises, are as agile in the sea and as well able to defend ourselves as a slug on a carpet. [dolphins] see them in context
  • I would imagine the Picts in Srath Earn would have a different dialect to those in the Moray Firth those are two known 'pictish' strongholds when cross-referencing evidence. Pictish female names
  • About that name: Cullen is, of course, a fishing town on the Moray Firth, an inlet popular with haddock, while "skink" has a more puzzling history. How to cook perfect cullen skink
  • Moray eels may look aggressive but that is because they need to gulp water continuously to force it through their gills.

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