Martin’s Bay

NAVIGATION

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Barbados Fringing Reefs and Seagrass Beds (www.versicolor.ca/barbados).
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DRAFTING…

Google Earth Map: Regional Setting for 2025 Observations on Coral Rubble Flats in east (windward) coast of Barbados>

 

These photos illustrate “Coral Rubble Flats” at Martin’s Bay, Barbados on Mar 21, 2025.

Other sites: Bathsheba, Bath  – see Map at right for regional setting.

See Coral Rubble Flats, Algal & Gorgonian Pavements for more details, context.

Google Earth Image Martin’s bay area, low tide showing intertidal Coral Rubble Flats and positions of selected photos.

2025 #803 View from beach looking 77 deg (~NE)

2025 – #805 Green alga is Boergesenia forbesii, a recent immigrant to Barbados?  

2025 – #810. Acanthophora spicifera

2025 – #811 Thalassia testudinum in tide pool

2025 – #814

2025. # 817  On flats looking 79 deg (NEE)

2025 – #822  T. testudinum & Boergesenia forbesii in tide pool.

2025 # 826 looking 106 deg (~E) toward eastern headland.

2025 – #827 In the tide pool T. testudinumSiderastrea radians, Boergesenia forbesii, Padina sp. 

2025 – #834 Mat of fine articulated corallines.

2025 – #836 Boergesenia forbesii,

2025 – #840

2025 – #848 View -71 deg (NWW)

2025 – #847 Siderastrea radians, common in tide pools, a species noted to be highly stress tolerant – D. Lirman et al. 2002; JB Lewis, 1989

2025 – #849

2025 – #851 View 2 deg (N)

2025 – #854 In the tide pool T. testudinumSiderastrea radians, Boergesenia forbesii,