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01-JUL-2006

Catching the sun

This is a plain picture of some standard snails in the regular sea, however....they were acting very peculiar, that is if you know how they normally act.

Let me explain - standard issue is for them to dig under the sand as soon as they are exposed by a wave. These little ones were standing up as high as they can instead of sand-diving. After a closer inspection, we felt the water was actually absolutely freezing and the only conclusion was that they were........SUNBATHING! They were actually trying to get as most sun as they could, standing on their "toes" and exposing their shells.

To conclude, it is a plain picture of standard snails in a regular sea, in a non-standard pose ;-)

Canon EOS 10D
1/500s f/11.0 at 135.0mm iso200 full exif

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