Treasures of the Adriatic
When we initially arrived on the Island of Hvar, we never thought it would have such a rich marine life so close to the coast. We were pleasantly surprised when we were packing our stuff back home and realized that we gathered quite a collection of underwater goods. Most of them were collected in Uvala Rapak (Gdinj area), but we also did a bit of snorkeling in Hvar and Makarska (the public beach turned out to be really messy) as well. Here are some photos of the beautiful sea animals:
violet sea urchin, Uvala Rapak – photo by Andras Rancz
violet sea urchin, Uvala Rapak – photo by Andras Rancz
red seastar on sea urchin house, Uvala Rapak – photo by Andras Rancz
red seastar on violet sea urchin-house, Gdinj – photo by Andras Rancz
red seastars, Uvala Rapak (Gdinj)Â – photo by Andras Rancz
7 legged seastar, Hvar – photo by Andras Rancz
orange seastar, Makarska – photo by Andras Rancz
live cockle clam, Makarska – photo by Andras Rancz
the whole collection
sea potato house, Gdinj – photo by Andras Rancz
some of the sea urchin houses
blue mussel (up left), noah’s ark (up center), turritella communis (down below)
crab’s backs, and their pincers, stonedriller-clam(down below)
crab pincers 🙂
edible cockles & haliotis earshells
Haliotis ear shells
So tell me, which of these Adriatic wonders have YOU encountered?:)
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WOW! You certainly have a unique collection of great pictures of some very unusual sea creatures.
great work.
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Thank you, Sharon 🙂