Marsa Mubarak
The sheltered, sandy bay of Marsa Mubarak offers many ideal conditions as a Dugong and Green Turtles habitat, offering one of the largest patches of seagrass in the region.
Dugongs are peaceful and tranquil animals, they appear fat, but are fusiform, hydrodynamic, and highly muscular, reaching up to 3 meters in length and weighing up to 500 kg. They are exclusively bottom feeders, primary feeding on sea-grass and aquatic vegetation they uproot by digging furrows in the seafloor with their snouts.
The Green Turtles are a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits the bay and spends most of the day very close to the coastal waters of Marsa Mubarak feeding at the sea-grass.