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Gear:
Diver:
Pictures:
(no idea yet what the white thing is, I don't even know if it is a plant or an animal)
(sponge - Ircinia muscarum?)
(Anemonia sulcata AKA Snakelocks anemone)
(Anemonia sulcata AKA Snakelocks anemone)
(sponge - Verongia aerophoba)
(yellow - Verongia aerophoba, black sponge on the right - Ircinia muscarum, brown - some other sponge, orange - something else; can be a sponge as well)
(Echinaster sepositus - but could be it is Marthasterias glacialis, they are similar in size and both can be red)
So, where is the fish?
(Scorpaena porcus?)
Starfish was at about 20 feet - correction for refraction taken into account. Everything else was closer to the surface.
I had some problems. With just fins, mask and snorkel it is extremely difficult to fight buoyancy, and using slow idiot camera doesn't help - it takes ages before focusing ends, in the meantime I was already in completely different position. Sometimes I could catch some rock, but it is not necessarily the best idea - some of them are razor sharp. Add to that fact that in shallow water it is too bright to see the screen correctly, so it is hard to find out if camera is ready to take the picture, or not. Finally, I couldn't spend as much time in the water as I wanted to. For the first week I was fighting larynx and/or vocal cords infection, I lost my voice for three days, so decided to not even try to enter water. Next week weather was rather lousy - warm enough, but many clouds, so there was not enough light under water.
But during the last week I had a lot of fun in the water
Diver:
Pictures:
(no idea yet what the white thing is, I don't even know if it is a plant or an animal)
(sponge - Ircinia muscarum?)
(Anemonia sulcata AKA Snakelocks anemone)
(Anemonia sulcata AKA Snakelocks anemone)
(sponge - Verongia aerophoba)
(yellow - Verongia aerophoba, black sponge on the right - Ircinia muscarum, brown - some other sponge, orange - something else; can be a sponge as well)
(Echinaster sepositus - but could be it is Marthasterias glacialis, they are similar in size and both can be red)
So, where is the fish?
(Scorpaena porcus?)
Starfish was at about 20 feet - correction for refraction taken into account. Everything else was closer to the surface.
I had some problems. With just fins, mask and snorkel it is extremely difficult to fight buoyancy, and using slow idiot camera doesn't help - it takes ages before focusing ends, in the meantime I was already in completely different position. Sometimes I could catch some rock, but it is not necessarily the best idea - some of them are razor sharp. Add to that fact that in shallow water it is too bright to see the screen correctly, so it is hard to find out if camera is ready to take the picture, or not. Finally, I couldn't spend as much time in the water as I wanted to. For the first week I was fighting larynx and/or vocal cords infection, I lost my voice for three days, so decided to not even try to enter water. Next week weather was rather lousy - warm enough, but many clouds, so there was not enough light under water.
But during the last week I had a lot of fun in the water
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