Walking along the ocean shoreline Sunday morning. And between the handful of scattered swimmers spread out between Leighton Beach and Cables Station I see, moving south to north, a small dark cloud. The thought ‘sting ray’ immediately comes to mind. The black cloud continues moving along the base of the light blue water, about ten metres out. It does not surface for air. Baamba sting ray it must be. Not the small ones I see often down in Geograph Bay, nor the massive ones down in Hamelin Bay, but the ones about the same size I used to see swimming the reefs between Cottesloe and North Cottesloe about twenty years ago.