Lumpsucker with Eggs. Grevelingen, the Netherlands.

As I write this I’m waiting for my flight to Spain, where I’m visiting photographer, filmmaker and biologist Nate Dappen of Day’s Edge Productions. Nate and I will work on a short film about the lizards inhabiting Formentera, an island in the Mediterranean Sea. I met Nate at the Nature Photography Summit earlier this year and I’m very excited to be teaming up with him again.

I will also do some diving. It’s not my first time diving the Mediterranean Sea, and I’m looking forward tremendously to revisiting the sea grass fields, octopuses, gorgonians, pipefish, wrasses, moray eels, groupers, triplefins, and who knows what other amazing marine life of the Mediterranean. I’ll try to do a couple of posts during my stay so you can all see what a beautiful place it is!

For now, here’s a photo from closer to home: a lumpsucker with eggs (Cyclopterus lumpus), one of the stranger creatures to be encountered in the Grevelingen, Zeeland.