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Paradise beach days
These calm days in spring, they are simply the best – right out of paradise…!
An early start with the sunrise:
Then off to the beach. The water sea is still cool in May, but once you are in it, it’s marvellous!
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W
e find and catch some small animals.
We find this shrimp (Philocheras fasciatus) which is rarely seen as it lives buried in the sand.
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We catch (and release afterwards of course) this small goby (Pomatoschistus microps)
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The Wide-eyed flounder is common in the shallow water.
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Like the former two species it is sand-coloured and exellently camouflaged.
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These small blennies, quite common at the coast, are easy to catch.
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Blennies are territorial fish that often inhabit old date mussel holes.
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An uncommonly large crab of the species Pachygrapsus marmoratus
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Who dares to catch it?
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It is a female that carries the eggs under its abdomen.
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Here you can see the crab from below.
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We find this Beadlet anemone on the rocks of the little island.
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Caulerpa racemosa, a chlorophyte (“green alga”)
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probably Liagora viscida, a rhodophyte (“red alga”)
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also very beautiful: Wrangelia penicillata
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n the way home we enjoy once more the view over our bay with the islands of Mákares and Donoússa in the background.
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