Day 8: This was our last day of diving. We woke up and had breakfast as usual, sorted our stuff and got onto the dive boat. We were going in a different direction today, past Mascat to Fahal Island. The journey out was a bit rough and we were all relieved when the boat stopped. We kitted up and jumped into Shallow Reef, a negative entry to two pinnacles the tops of which were at 16m and 18m, so not that ‘Shallow’! We swam around, and Faisal our guide found a seahorse, it was about 10cm big, and was really great to see! We then found a sea snake, or rather it found us. I was taking a photo of it when it decided to swim towards me, it looked huge on my screen and I
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