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The best time to see stuff in a busy is early morning. Water is usually very calm, and animals are not scared away by hordes of intro-divers.

Unfortunately, the light just after a sunrise is not good for making photos under the water.
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During these few days I found that swimming to the sea before 8AM pays off. Even on Friday, I was the first guy in the sea.

That white thing on the horizon is the famous underwater observatory.
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There are many aquariums with sea turtles, sharks, rays, exotic fish, a poor octopus, etc there. The main attraction however are not the aquariums but a big underwater observatory. Their web site states that it is the oldest underwater onbservatory, and the windows are submerged to 6 meters. When I was taking the stairs down I had a feeling that the real depth is just 3 meters.

The views there are very good.
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So I obviously wondered how it would look from outside? The only way to find out is to get there by the sea. One has to buy a pass to the nature reserve beach and swim 500 meters from there, or swim a kilometer from a public beach. I have chosen a cheaper option :)

That is how it looks from the sea:

Nothing too special as a coral, but could be a nice wreck :) When diving there, I felt like the depth was only about 3-4 meters.

Now I see how the fish feels like when it is being watched and photographed through the windows:
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That lady with a white smartphone must have taken couple of pictures of me and fish.

The corals around are well nurtured.
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The bubbles on the pictures above are coming from the divers, who are taking care of the reef.
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And yes, these guys must release the octopus or at least get him a bigger cage!!!

I was trying to find an octopus on my every diving occasion. Finally I made it today. I went for a short dive before the breakfast, first time this year and met 2 or three octopuses.

First, I've noticed one slowly getting out of his hideout.
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He was changing colors, and was doing all the stuff octopus is supposed to do.

First red.

It just takes a fraction of a second to turn to a stone.
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Just few seconds before Julia had sprinted to me, another octopus approached this one and they fled to coral fields together
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And once again, they changed color to blue.