ANIMALS, TRAVEL, UNDERWATER

if you gaze into the abyss…

He who fights with monsters

might take care lest he thereby

become a monster.

And if you stare for long

into an abyss,

the abyss stares back

Beyond Good And Evil. Friedrich Nietzsche.

This was the last episode of this picture series shot in Lisbon and surroundings over Christmas 2022. All episodes:

1. Look up (from Fri, 10.2)
2. No Western than this (from Sun, 12.2)
3. Memory of water (from Wed, 15.2)
4. Atlantic at the end (from Fri, 17.2)
5. The essence of Tejo (from Sun, 19.2)
6. Winter shores (from Wed, 22.2)
7. Heroes of the sea (from Fri, 24.2)
8. Tejo (from Sun, 26.2)
9. Seamen (from Wed, 1.3)
10. Foreground diversions (from Fri, 3.3)
11. Astronomic observation in Lisbon (from Sun, 5.3)
12. if you gaze into the abyss… (from Wed, 8.3)

ANIMALS, UNDERWATER

Blue Crete

Fishes underwater, cormorants above water, bound by all the blue shades of Cretan waters

ii

This is the new episode of the reportage Crete:Kingdom of Candia. Click each picture to open it full size. Previous episode(s):

1. Once upon the time in the Kingdom of Candia

2. Gramvousa ochre and turquoise

3. Solo sliders

4. Go West: Falassarna shores of Crete

5. Balos lagoon, a royal beauty

6. Balos, all the colors of water

7. Visitors (or not) in the Mediterranean Sea

8. The only good nation is Imagination

9. Postcards from Chania

10. Wet rocks

11. Rethymno: the Fortezza

12. Between two words

13. A lucky underwater encounter

14. A trip to Spinalonga

15. The last leper colony

ANIMALS, UNDERWATER

A lucky underwater encounter

Underwater, while snorkeling 1 km away from the shores of Agia Fotia (Lybian sea), non human eyes gazed at me.

A turtle was behind me: Caretta caretta first time encounter in my life.

I followed its trail, with its slow and peaceful underwater cruising

It pointed to the surface to quickly breath air above the surface…

…and then it disappeared in the blue abysses south of Fotia

This is the new episode of the reportage Crete:Kingdom of Candia. Click each picture to open it full size. Previous episode(s):

1. Once upon the time in the Kingdom of Candia

2. Gramvousa ochre and turquoise

3. Solo sliders

4. Go West: Falassarna shores of Crete

5. Balos lagoon, a royal beauty

6. Balos, all the colors of water

7. Visitors (or not) in the Mediterranean Sea

8. The only good nation is Imagination

9. Postcards from Chania

10. Wet rocks

11. Rethymno: the Fortezza

12. Between two words

UNDERWATER

Wet rocks

The variable underwater panorama of Crete. Shallow waters and morphological richness make snorkeling in Crete a unique experience at every dive.

This is the new episode of the reportage Crete:Kingdom of Candia. Click each picture to open it full size. Previous episode(s):

1. Once upon the time in the Kingdom of Candia

2. Gramvousa ochre and turquoise

3. Solo sliders

4. Go West: Falassarna shores of Crete

5. Balos lagoon, a royal beauty

6. Balos, all the colors of water

7. Visitors (or not) in the Mediterranean Sea

8. The only good nation is Imagination

9. Postcards from Chania

ANIMALS, UNDERWATER

Visitors (or not) in the Mediterranean Sea

This year snorkeling surprised with many encounters I supposed not usual in the Mediterranean sea. Common species of Red and Indian-Pacific seas were not rare in the Greek and Libyan sea of Crete in 2022

Sea urchins with very long (mildly venomous) needles

Red Lionfish (venomous, too) on both north and south shores

The good old, local Octopus

A delicious, Mediterranean cuttlefish

Barracuda, also (?) common the Mediterranean sea

This is the new episode of the reportage Crete:Kingdom of Candia. Click each picture to open it full size. Previous episode(s):

1. Once upon the time in the Kingdom of Candia

2. Gramvousa ochre and turquoise

3. Solo sliders

4. Go West: Falassarna shores of Crete

5. Balos lagoon, a royal beauty

6. Balos, all the colors of water

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