2018 Canary Islands

[MuskieBait]

Being a teacher has its perks. Recently, we had a week of school holidays in March. I found some cheap flights to the Canary Islands and decided to spend 7 days there. We started with 4 days on Fuerteventura followed by 3 days on Tenerife.

I haven't had time to write the blog yet...I just managed to edit the pics and upload them onto the blog. Maybe I can work on the writing on Easter Sunday.

Let's start off with a bang with some panoramic views...

Parque Natural Jandia

Cofete and Pico de la Zarza

Fuerteventura

La Entallada

Parque Natural Corralejo

Punta de Teno

Masca

Teide

Teide Caldera

Chinamada

 

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Some extra scenery shots...

Hornos de Cal de La Guirra, Fuerteventura

Antigua, Fuerteventura

View around Mirador de Morra Velosa

Castillo del Toston

La Entallada

Parque Natural Corralejo

Punta de Teno

Teide

Teide

Anaga

 

[MuskieBait]

Did you expect me to go anywhere without catching some new species? There was a bit of overlap in species with the Mediterranean, so it wouldn't exactly be easy to do well on with a large number of new species in the Canaries. However, with a bit of determination, I did catch 21 new species

White Seabream (Diplodus sargus) - Species #772

Guinean puffer (Sphoeroides marmoratus) - Species #773

Canary Damsel (Abudefduf luridus) - Species #774

Golden Grey Mullet (Chelon aurata) - Species #775

Azores chromis (Chromis limbata) - Species #776

Madeira Goby (Mauligobius maderensis) - Species #777

Rock-pool Blenny (Parablennius parvicornis) - Species #778

Bastard grunt (Pomadasys incisus) - Species #779

Axillary Seabream (Pagellus acarne) - Species #780

Common Two-Banded Seabream (Diplodus vulgaris) - Species #781

 

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Salema (Sarpa salpa) - Species #782

Sharpsnout Seabream (Diplodus puntazzo) - Species #783

Black Scorpionfish (Scorpaena porcus) - Species #784

Saddled Seabream (Oblada melanura) - Species #785

Madeira Rockfish (Scorpaena maderensis) - Species #786

Red Porgy (Pagrus pagrus) - Species #787

Pearly Razorfish (Xyrichtys novacula) - Species #788

Emerald wrasse (Symphodus trutta) - Species #789

Molly Miller (Scartella cristata) - Species #790

Rock Goby (Gobius paganellus) - Species #791

 

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Macaronesian Sharpnose-Puffer (Canthigaster capistrata) - Species #792

And some non-lifers

Annular Seabream (Diplodus annularis)

Comber (Serranus cabrilla)

Mediterranean Rainbow Wrasse (Coris julis)

Cardinalfish (Apogon imberbis)

Painted Comber (Serranus scriba)

Flathead Grey Mullet (Mugil cephalus)

Ornate Wrasse (Thalassoma pavo)

Planehead Filefish (Stephanolepis hispidus)

 

[fisgfreek]

Thanks for sharing as always, that Porgy looked delicious .

 

[TI Redux]

And here I thought only trout and salmon existed!

 

[MuskieBait]

There are many fish in that list that are great tablefare.

Seabreams, in general, are great. Cook whole in the oven or grilled. The Red Porgy belongs in this family as well. Most Porgy are great eating.

Scorpionfishes, in general, are great. Fillet and battered they make really good fish and chips. Or you can steam them and they are as good as Groupers.

Mullets, in general, are great. Those from European or Asian descent knows how to prepare Mullet properly.

Combers, in general, are great. They belong to the same family as Seabass and Grouper. The only knock on them is that they are generally too small. But the photo of my Painted Comber is a 12" specimen, and it would yield twice the amount of meat as a 12" Yellow Perch since it is so thick.

I'm speaking all of this out of experience. I've eaten a few species of Seabream and Porgy, California Scorpionfish and Lionfish, a couple species of Mullets and Painted Comber (and quite a few species of Groupers). My culinary fish species list is probably longer than most people's fish species catch list LOL.

 

[wschinke]

Beautiful pics - thanks for sharing! That Canary Damsel looks almost artificial. Crazy colouring.