Undersea foraging: Exploring the terrain
There's nothing like diving in the warm sea if you manage to bring some FREE food to your home!
Especially if you borrow GoPro camera from your sister and you have sea just few meters from your home! I'm not a professional but harvested a lot of sea shells in my life! I can also prepare them and enjoy eating them.
I will have more posts like this in next few days, so I will start with shells that you shouldn't pick and eat and I will explain why. Some of them are protected by the law.
For example, these "noble pen shells" or "fan mussels" (Pinna nobilis in Latin).
They are endemic to Mediterranean sea and can grow up to 1.2 meters. In Adriatic sea, this species is considered as endangered so I should avoid them.
You definitely shouldn't pick any mussels from the iron chain that connects buoy with the anchor.
In the sea, iron becomes rusted very fast and those mussels are not best choice to eat. Also those on the buoy! But if you find some on the rocks, don't hesitate to pick them, if they are big enough!
Those "Noah's Ark Shells" are great for eating and they are healthy, also they can be prepared for few minutes! My next foraging post will be about them. Today I haven't brought any tool to separate them from the stone.
Interesting as always.
Thanks for sharing and for #weekendwasted contest.
Thank you! :)
Amazing! You should make a post on cooking them too. How do you usually go down, with breath or with full diving gear?
Breath, of course :)
wow, just free diving for these? nice
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Interesting! I don't think its a weekend wasted. Pretty fun weekend to be foraging underwater for your food! :D
Check the announcement post :) thanks for the comment
Follow me very nice
Very interesting post. Good stuff!
Thanks :)
hmmm I wish I could pick my own mussels. With some fries yummy. I will look into the contest aswell. Thanks for your contribution to the community!
Thank you very much :) :) :)
Wow how lucky, I wish I lived next to a warm sea lol
I would swim in there everyday and scubadiveee 😍😍
Nice, thank you fro comment :)
You are s gold digger! Congrats for this info!
Thanks!
Nice one
Thanks
dumar022 - Thanks for this floating post :) You are lucky to be able to dive so near your home and to have a Go Pro to record your dive experience. Nice pictures. Even nicer is the information about the safe to eat mussels.
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I have 'wasted' my weekend without getting 'wasted' and wrote a rather philosophical post about my butterfly and bee pictures called Float/Sting..What is your strategy. I request you to see and provide your views if you have time. Your comments will be very welcome. Thanks
Thank you ! ! !
How free is it..... The food
:)