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Lion Fish January 29th, 2011
Last month I went on a boat trip in Oman with a few friends. We took a dhow along the coast of the Mussandam peninsula, starting from the port in Dibba.
While snorkelling on this trip I came across three separate lion fish. Now, I’ve seen many lion fish before, but never quite like these. All the one’s I’d seen before would be peacefully floating about under an overhang, or hiding in a hole or some such.
But these three were out hunting. They were spread out, some 50 or more meters apart along a wall of coral, and swimming about in pursuit of schools of small fish.
Above a lion fish swims off in pursuit of rapidly disappearing small fish under the curious gaze of two of my buddies.
Above, a lion fish tries to close the deal. It was impressive to watch the lion fish in action. However, I was quite surprised at how slow a lion fish at full speed is. In the near 2 hours I spent in the water snorkelling near and around the hunting lion fish, I did not see a single charge ending successfully with a catch. I guess the bigger they are, the lazier they get… 😉
All pictures taken with my (very) old Fuji FinePix Z100 in an underwater case.
More coming soon!
Tags: boat trip, coast, dhow, dibba, finepix, fish, fuji, hunt, hunting, lion, lion fish, lionfish, mussandam, oman, sea, snorkelling, underwater case, underwater housing, z100
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