Josephine's moon-shell

1.follow the signs
2.find her

3.admire her.

-watch out for the eggs.
-photos taken at Kolimpithres beach Paros. (Don't swim there without a big buoy) at May 2009.

the wonderful Jacks!!!!!! their education and the perfect crime.

-One day i saw big great amberjacks in the Crete aquarium. I was with a friend of mine who was working there and as two amberjacks (of about 2okgr each one) approached us, she said to me "look at them their so gossipy fish!! i can't stand them, I feel like all the time they are talking about what I'm doing". It was true! They were looking like whispering to their "ears". So I laughed and started playing with the curious fish.
-Then one day as I was snorkeling for some photos in Chios I found them. The same reaction from the fishes. They come around me whispering to each other all the time. Nice opportunity for some photos I thought and I started flashing (photos 1 and 2).
-I showed the photos to another friend who likes spearfishing and he told me "Unfair fishes ! I've met them so many times and always,when they saw the spear they swam away without approaching me.". I'm lucky I thought, but everytime I meet amberjacks they come close to me and everytime George meets them,they run away!

DANGER!!! weevers around!

- Weeverfishe is the common name for the members of trachinidae family. The family has 9 species and 4 of them can be found in the mediterranean sea. They are all venomous and you can be hit if you stand on them. Once, as I was trying to take photos of an anemone with 2-3 weevers around it, one of them tried to frighten me by swimming to the surface.
-Photo 1 is a Trachinus draco weever of about 25cm long and photo 2 is about 5cm long.
-Photo 3 is a Trachinus radiatus of about 30 cm long.
-Photos 4 and 5 were taken accidentaly as i was taking photos of the gasteropods feeding on that piece of squid, a weever appeared! I can't understand with what exact purpose.

Baby hunter!

-First picture from Artaki and second from Daphni beach. Both places are at central-west Evia island.
-Third picture taken from a small aquarium. The cuttlefish isn't bigger than 1,5cm!!!!
-Cuttlefish are very good in ambushing for his food. For that purpose they can change rapidly their colors and bury themselves under the sand (first photo)
-They can hunt other fishes and crustaceans with similar size.
-They can grow up to 45cm.

The spiral of life!

- This spiral of eggs belongs to a species of a nudibranch.
- Most of the times they are a perfect spiral like the one on the left.
- It is very fragile and easy to be disturbed (right) so perfect your buoyancy and don't touch please(babies inside)!
-Most of the times I have seen it, it's on rock cliffs, probably for aeration

Tompot blenny

-It usually sits at the shadows.
-It swims really bad.
-Very common at ports.
-It slides like a soap when you trying to take it of the hook. Don't through it to water (keep it inside a bucket with water) until you leave the area because it may hook again as you free it.
-It tastes very bad.
-Photo taken at Artaki city beach (Euvia island)

i'm off the tube!!!!

-During the day it leaves under rocks, active at night.
-photo taken at Paros island (mikri Santa) at august 08.