Daily photo: shore diving in Pag island

This is one of my favorite spots in Croatia, the house reef of Blue Bay DC in Stara Novalja.

Success

In the beginning of June we organized a shootout photo competition in Pag island, Croatia. We announced two categories for DSLR and compact cameras, and a 3 member jury voted on the photos. For my surprise, I became second in the compact gallery with this photo:

I confess I am really happy, it is my biggest success in photography. If you want to see all the photos of the competition, here you can check the two galleries:
DSLR
Compact

Cat shark egg

I'm unlucky with the cat sharks. I saw dozen eggs but haven't ever met any living cat sharks. (Sadly I saw 4 dead ones, it's very sad.) Here comes a recent photo of an egg from Croatia, Pag island.

Ribari

After many Adriatic trips some local songs sound really familiar. The Ribari is one of them, I post this version, the singer is Vinko Coce. As I'm preparing for another two weeks long trip to Croatia I like to hear it again.

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A new "deepest one"...

We spent two weeks in the Adriatic: we visited Montenegro and a Croatian island, Murter. As usual, I didn't plan special deep dives but in the Adriatic it often happens. So we did some dives to 30 meters this time as well. On the last diving day in Murter I joined a group which was led by a really experienced diver, the owner, Kurt. We started to descend. There were two less experienced divers in the groups who checked their instruments too often. I saw we left 25, 30, 35... And in the bottom Kurt showed me a gorgony. I swam there and turned on my torch. I saw as the dull dark grey became bright purple color. I checked my computer, I was at 41 meters depth. We turned back, saw a nice wall with many yellow sponges, and when we ascended to 7-8 meters Kurt asked about my air. I showed I had 100 bars. I saw his grin as he tried to show our buddies had only 50 bars. I showed "no problem". We finished the dive with a safety stop, I saw some nudibranch and an octopus.

On the boat I told Kurt an old Hungarian phrase: "We cry together, we laugh together". It means I don't have any problems if the dive is shorter while I still have plenty of air. I remember dives when I was the one with the least amount of air and nobody blamed me. We had a nice dive anyway. And for me it was deepest in my diving career.

Montenegro

It's May again and we're diving in the Adriatic again. This is a new destination for us, se we would like to see more of Montenegro (Crna Gora) above and under water...

Thanks, Top Gear!

I confess I hadn't heard about Seasick Steve until I saw an episode of the famous BBC program where Jeremy Clarkson interviewed him. He was the star guest who drove the cheap car but for me it was more interesting to learn about this great musician. (As a scuba diver who travel or ride often by a boat I have stories about seasickness, so his name sounded familiar...)