Chicken was cooked with dill, cuttlefish with their ink and wine, octopus with chickpeas.

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The first was a very rare 12ft (3.6m) Sowerby's beaked whale - normally a deep water species which feeds off squid and cuttlefish.

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Two-year-old Pipero al Rex offers specialties such as goose carpaccio with apple and mustard, while Metamorfosi features twists on the classics, such as gnocchi with cuttlefish and peas.

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The reef has been decimated in parts by dynamite fishing, but you will still find a huge amount of underwater life, with a smorgasbord of cuttlefish, octopus, pygmy seahorse, scorpion fish, clownfish and giant green turtles.

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