Saturday, May 1, 2010

Spring wildlife - but what?

Can you identify the wildlife that we saw during our first few weeks afloat?
We saw 3 whales swimming slowly along the coast near Gemiler Adasi. These are the small ones – there was a huge one further out to sea. What are they?


In Bayandir Limani near Kas we saw loads of these tiny animal things in the water glowing bright blue like LED's. Slowly they were coming together in pairs (or threes – wey hey) and they were definitely glowing, not reflecting the light. They had lots of tiny wavy arms/legs along one edge. What are they?
Needing no explanation, but just as wonderful, we had dolphins (or are they porpoises?) jumping along next to our dinghy as we went ashore from the pine forested anchorage opposite Ece marina in Fethiye bay. 
In our walks ashore, particularly around the Lykian sites we've seen 3 snakes (one as big as my arm and definitely on my trajectory had I not stopped to look at something), tortoises, terrapins and turtles, and heaps and heaps of giant insects. It must be spring or something......
2 sea birds on a raft - aahh!!


And much more rare – look, what's this blue flappy thing?......

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