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Punta Lea: immersion in the Porto Selvaggio Park<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Exactly four years ago I visited Salento for the first time. From my first meeting with Porto Selvaggio, I remember the chromatic contrasts of the blue sky, the bright green Mediterranean scrub, the pale rocks and the clear and turquoise sea. I dived into those waters without knowing that there would be a beautiful underwater itinerary below.<\/p>\n

Punta Lea is a small protuberance that delimits the rocky bay of this natural park to the north and which, in summer, is packed with tourists who bathe and who venture among its ravines with masks and fins. Among them some spearfisher seeks success in an attempt to bring a booty to the surface.<\/p>\n

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A wonderful sunset over Punta Lea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The dive began in a stretch in which the rocky prominence of the tip descended gently below sea level, forming a small semicircular loop where several times I have come across some voracious amberjack which, with a powerful swim, crosses the pelvis, so fast that I could not immortalize her with a photograph or video. What a pity! This summer I have visited this site three times and have appeared on two occasions. Although I was prepared, on the first occasion with the camera set up and on the second with the GoPro<\/a> ready, these wonderful predators left me with an inch of my nose.<\/p>\n

A colorful tunnel was born from a natural cavity in the rock and a very colorful wall appeared. My curious eye and, above all, my desire to immortalize every moment of underwater life, pushed me to inspect it meticulously. It was completely covered with sponges, from the most common gray and pink (with the usual sea cow perched on them) to those with the most striking colors, yellow and orange. In the more shaded areas the sea daisies, small yellow madrepores, increased the fabulous chromatic contrast. On the ledges of the rock, in the few spaces left free, the bryozoans tenaciously resist the direct current. The camera was ready to capture one of my favorite subjects: the nudibranch.<\/p>\n