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23/02/2025

Calypso's Cave in Xaghra Gozo.

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16/02/2025

Greetings from Comino Hotel in the Maltese Islands 🇲🇹.

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09/02/2025

San Pawl il-Baħar.

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25/02/2024

28/01/2024

Unspoiled 👀 XLENDI bay 🏖 - Just a few boathouses 🎣 to keep fishing nets 🐠 🐟 🦞 and boats 🛶 ⛵️ 🛶 equipment - Covered with Tamarisk Tree 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳.

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14/01/2024

Mġarr is a harbour town in south-eastern Gozo, Malta 🇲🇹 - Was a picturesque fishing village - Love GOZO Island.

07/01/2024

Local fisherman 🐟 preparing to go fishing 🎣 at the port 🛶 of Mgarr in Gozo Island 🇲🇹 - Fishing with traps ⬇️.

Traps used to catch bogue (vopi) 🐟 and picarel (arznell) 🐟 are usually set in the afternoon and they are pulled out of the water after four or five hours. Normally, about 15 of these pots are set at a depth of 15 to 20 metres and kept some one metre above the seabed.
Bait consisting of bread mashed with finely powdered dried beans is placed hanging on the side of the pot and the fish enter through the bottom constriction attracted by the bait.
This kind of fishing takes place all the year round and the fish caught in the traps are fried, if big enough, or for fish soup.
The nases tal-arznell 🐟 are only used in Gozo island.
They are employed in the same manner as the traps for bogue 🐟 but no bait is required because it is thought that the fish enter the pot to spawn.
This kind of fishing takes place from March to mid-May.

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26/11/2023

Mgarr - Gozo - Love GOZO Island.

12/11/2023

Traditions - Local fisherman repairing his nets in main road at the port of Mgarr Harbour in Gozo island back in the 80's - Love GOZO Island.

05/11/2023

Mgarr - Love GOZO Island.