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Posted on September 20, 2011 @ 6:02 pm by massimo | Filed under: advertisement,animals,another green world,bargain,beach,blog,diving,fun,illustration,mediterranean,news,swimming,turkey

Kaş, once an unspoiled fishing village, is now a relatively unspoiled tourist town on the southern bulge of Turkey’s Mediterranean coast. The area around Kas belongs to the Top 100 diving destinations worldwide. This is because this area have an high amount of underwater life, combined with very clear water (up to 40 meters visibility) and beautiful underwater landscapes. Actually there are around 30 different dive spots and many great places for swimming and snorkelling:  a destination really worth a Turkey holidays, in my opinion. Always, while I’m afloat on the sea surface, I know that a more or less intense underwater life is going on just under my feet: this fact simply makes me feel dizzy!  What then,  if you are bathing or -better- snorkelling a diving spot notoriously crowded by baracudas, stingrays, sea-turtles, rare snails, dorades, jack-fishes, soldier-fishes, octopusses, muray-eels, trumpet-fishes, brasses of many kinds, as well as huge groupers? What would be your feeling when so many amazing underwater lifeforms are to be seen regulary in unpolluted and crystal clear sea waters like Kaş’ ones? Would you realize at last, that a crowded, sunken and parallel world coexists with the one we are used to  ive in?

Illustration Friday topic is: mesmerizing

split tongued spirit

Posted on May 24, 2008 @ 4:28 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog,boracay,fear,fun,holidays,island,news,philippines,sailing,swimming,wordpress

paraw boracay aynaku illustration travel

Swimming in open sea is my favourite sport: yet it scares me a little. As soon as I jump into the water, some sort of split tongued spirit talks and says out of the vast sea: “maybe you could sink and die”. When the spirit talks louder my worries can’t be denied. But I never gave up. On the contrary I keep my eyes wide open, looking for some potential danger…
The waters out of Boracay’s beach are always damn crowded by fast boats cruising at any time of the day. It is a real hassle, since local pilots seem to care absolutely nothing of swimmers, nor to understand how fragile a floating man is. It’s hard for me to forget the time when a fast paraw nearly broke me down…The reckless driver simply couldn’t see me, I guess because of the dusk…

Illustration Friday’s topic is: worry

moody blues…

Posted on September 29, 2007 @ 3:49 pm by massimo | Filed under: ancona,blog,food,illustration,package tour,swimming,wordpress

food aynaku illustration travel

Summer time is over, at last. I’m just coming from the beach: I dared once upon a time cold October waters and took my last swim. I’m almost frozen and now I don’t want to go out, I am not in the mood…The blues you know, the moody blues is always taking me over a little, in autumn…
I know that I am going to find myself often watching the clouds running in the sky, and the rain cracking the branches upon my window… And when it happens, I can’t find anything better than eating some bizarre oriental dishes, which invariably get the power of defying my subtle sort of melancholy…

Illustration Friday’s topic is: the blues

stingray

Posted on April 16, 2006 @ 11:36 am by massimo | Filed under: animals,beach,blog,boracay,diving,fear,holidays,illustration,island,news,package tour,people,philippines,swimming,wordpress

Stingrays are a triangular flat shape with conspicuous spots on a light brown disc; the spots are well-spaced in young but crowded to form reticulated pattern in adult. White ventrally with a …

surfing…

Posted on December 4, 2005 @ 11:06 pm by massimo | Filed under: another green world,beach,blog,fashion,fun,illustration,indonesia,island,news,people,swimming,travel,wordpress

In march 1990 the small cargo ship I was aboard as a passenger, broke out and died in Nias harbour.
I knew nothing of Nias but that it was a pleasant island, very popular among …

clownfish

Posted on November 26, 2005 @ 6:50 pm by massimo | Filed under: animals,blog,boracay,diving,fun,holidays,illustration,indonesia,kenya,package tour,philippines,swimming,travel,wordpress

“Small is beatiful” was a popular adage in Italy and it can be taken for the colourful, cute clownfish. Clownfish are relatively small organisms; fish in the …

lighthouse

Posted on November 6, 2005 @ 10:08 am by massimo | Filed under: bargain,beach,blog,cheap,fashion,fun,illustration,india,news,package tour,people,swimming,travel,wordpress

Kovalam is maybe the southernmost beach of India. Since the mid-seventies, Kovalam has been reputed as a place not to be missed among freaks, budget travellers and beachcombers.
The times are changing and the fashion too but, never mind- …

surreal eyed fish

Posted on October 16, 2005 @ 9:52 am by massimo | Filed under: animals,art,blog,diving,fashion,fun,illustration,news,swimming,wordpress

Definitely, I have no idea about the number of species inhabiting coral reefs and no deep dive needs to find attractive schools of fishes, turtles and moray eels. Sometimes Wonderland is only a pair of meters deep, right under your …

holidays

Posted on August 15, 2005 @ 10:12 am by massimo | Filed under: ancona,animals,beach,blog,food,fun,holidays,illustration,mediterranean,news,people,swimming,travel,wordpress

Aug.15. What a mess! Summer holidays in Italy: everybody goes swimming! Even myself who braved the oceans (eh, eh) now braves beaches crowded by dangerous local species: scoresof  kids restlessly jumping into the water, old sun burned skin-divers who frantically crop mussels.
Looking for wild creatures? nothing …

Welcome to AYNAKU!

Posted on July 19, 2005 @ 11:12 am by massimo | Filed under: africa,ancona,animals,another green world,architecture,art,bangkok,bargain,beach,blog,books,boracay,cheap,china,croatia,diving,fashion,fear,flights,food,fun,himalaya,holidays,illustration,india,indonesia,island,japan,kenya,lamu,mediterranean,music,mythology,news,package tour,people,philippines,politics,sailing,swimming,t-shirt,thailand,travel,ukiyo-e,wordpress

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it is six in the morning – local time – Sun shines and wind blows.

This is the first message in the bottle from AYNAKU, the beachcombers internet cove…Are you presently island hopping? Are you diving into crystal-clear tropical seas? Are you floating on a swimming pools greysh water? Are you braving the traffic jam?No matter what you are doing, …