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Africa » Egypt » Red Sea » Port Ghalib December 25th 2023

Our day began with another visit from our companion - obviously knew a good thing when he was on it! But sadly, all good things come to an end for cats (and humans) and we had to depart our lovely boat. Our driver collected us for the long drive to Marsa Alam. We wove through the agricultural scenes by the Nile on our way…and I mean that quite literally as side of the road seems to be a vague concept here…through village after village until we headed east and the scenery changed starkly. Lush green fields quickly gave way to harsh rocky terrain which seemed interminable. Luckily we had something else to entertain us which also seemed interminable - Taylor Swift. A quick stop for lunch with some delicious chicken meals and we were on our ... read more
Friendly turtle hanging in the middle
Beautiful snorkelling
Lots of fishies

Africa » Egypt » Red Sea » Port Ghalib December 25th 2023

What does everyone want in their Christmas stocking?! An early morning wake up and the chance to spend the day with chain-smoking half naked Russians! If your answer is yes, then you’re in the right place! Santa’s exceptional navigational abilities enabled him to find us here and his delivery partially offset the offence caused by the early start. Breakfast, pick up, some grumpy Russians and before too long we were on the boat with more. Luckily they had endless ciggies to suck down. But all was not too bad as we headed seawards into the waves towards Samadai reef, or dolphin house, hoping they had not been in touch with their lazier cousins of yesterday. A bit of rocking and rolling, some ciggies and more than our fair share of man boob and we were there. ... read more
Off on the boat trip
Dolphins found us too!
Hello beautiful dolphins

Africa » Egypt » Red Sea » Port Ghalib October 9th 2015

Oct. 8th 2015 Elphinstone reef! It's kind of a legend of a site. Famous for oceanic whitetip sharks. Also known as Longimanus. Longimanus comes from their latin name, Carcharhinus longimanus. These are very curious sharks, approaching divers and coming very close. Even touching us. They especially like me or better said, they liked my flash. They found it very interesting and came close to investigate it. Here one is touching me, almost like little bump. So close! Here we have a few more videos of the Longimanus... ... read more
Large gorgonia fan on elphinstone reef
lionfish on gorgonia
sea turtle

Africa » Egypt » Red Sea » Port Ghalib October 8th 2015

Oct. 7th 2015 When we were at the Sataya reef (Dolphin house) we wanted to swim with the dolphins but it seemed like they weren't there. Our zodiac didnt find them. We passed the island and when I looked back I saw something black, and to my opinion it did not look like a freediver (what someone else thought). After some discussion we decided to turn around and look what it was. I am soo glad we did! Dolphins! Swimming with the dolphins was amazing! Then we sailed on to Claudia reef. This is one amazing site. It is a reef with caverns and swimthroughs and beautiful scenes of light in it. When the rays of sunlight fall through the holes and cracks of the caves, it so beautiful.... read more
Dolphins at Shab Samadai
Dolphins at Shab Samadai
Dolphins turning below us

Africa » Egypt » Red Sea » Port Ghalib October 7th 2015

Oct. 6th 2015 There were rumors that there was a Tiger shark at Rocky. Just rumors, but enough to keep Sharif exited. On the first dive at Rocky we saw him, deep down and then turning away and disappearing. On the second dive alll divers went together as one big group. Then we saw it again, and it was disappearing again. Like one second after it was there again. From a different direction. realized that it must be two tigers! I guess I was the only one realizing this and a few guy s believed me this after we analyzed the photos we took. The shark appeared later again and swam right at us. This is the moment on this video. Tiger shark! Amazing what a powerful creature this is! We saw that it is a ... read more
my divebuddies
pic of me on the boat
before getting wet

Africa » Egypt » Red Sea » Port Ghalib October 6th 2015

Oct. 4th+5th 2015 Daedalus Reef is a reef in the open ocean, almost half way between Egypt and Saudi-Arabia. Its remote location makes it a destination for liveaboards. We stayed at Daedalus Reef for two days. Also visited the lighthouse there on one evening just before sunset. On our trip we tried to find hammerheads that live around this reef. And we were lucky! There is a school of 24 hammerheads living at daedalus reef... And one day we met the whole school! But they were always deeper than us. The first group of divers had a bit more luck, they met them directly at same level.... read more
some emperor
Scalloped hammerheads
Hammerhead




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