Djibouti. Tropical mackerel.

A separate, unexpected and very impressive theme of the Djiboutian trip is the South Asian tropical mackerel.
These fish go in small flocks, and, having found a cluster of plankton, open their mouths synchronously and begin to filter. The words "open mouths" do not give an idea of ​​what is happening - the mouth of a fish unfolds into a huge basket, three times more than its head. At that moment, it seems that the flock flashes with silver - the opening parts of the jaws are bright white.

Usually you meet these fish accidentally, in muddy water and several dozen, but here they went in packs of hundreds of pieces, in the clear morning water under the ship, for many hours, lining up in incredible formations.

My sea voyage through Djibouti took place on a beautiful wooden sailing yacht. One morning, when we had already prepared breakfast on the upper deck, I saw that next to our yacht there was a flock of tropical mackerel. The choice was obvious to me. the other members of our group ate breakfast, I masked and flippers chased mackerel, which, by the way, also had breakfast :)