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Back to reality after what ended as a most excellent holiday!

The photos are now available, the captions will appear over the next couple of days.

My favourites are this one of a Lion Fish and this one of the Hawksbill Turtle I saw at Ras Ghazlani. And yes, there is one of the Leopard Shark at Yolande Reef.

Many thanks go, once again, to Sublime Diving & Tours and their staff for organising the trip and making it most enjoyable.

Posted at 11:58 | Comments (0)

Shark!!!

I have to tell you about the last couple of days...

Yesterday (Thursday) started off bad. When I kitted up for the first dive, two clips on my equipment broke and I ripped my wetsuit. The the first half of the dive was bad as there were so many divers in the water, you couldn't see for bubbles. The second half of the dive was better.

On the way between the first and second dive sites we saw some wild dolphins, and the captain slowed down and circled so we could watch them for about ten minutes.

The second dive of the day was FANTASTIC!! It was a drift dive where you just go with the current, and we had a 5 knot current just wizzing us along, we got to cover so much ground for zero effort, and then I just glanced away from the reef into the 'blue' and saw two silver tipped sharks just swimming by!!! (sharks are notoriously difficult to spot). Slight dissapointment after the dive when one of my hoses failed (£20 for a new one).

And then last night an excellent night dive with lots of lionfish, a stone fish and a sea snake.

Today we did one of the top dive sites in the world, Shark and Yolanda Reefs. Everyone will tell you that, despite the name, you never see sharks there.... Well not today!!!!! We saw a leopard shark just sitting on the bottom. Our guide, who has over 2500 dives in Sharm, has never seen one so big or so docile, we were so priviledged... Wait for the photos to prove it!

Then to cap off the weeks diving we had another excellent drift dive where I spotted a lovely Hawksbill turtle.

Posted at 17:43 | Comments (0)

Sharm El-Sheikh

Here I am on my annual diving trip to Egypt...

So far the weather has been good, but the diving had a small setback, there was a conference of African Presidents here and they shut all the local diving site, so we had 350 boats trying to use the ten remaining open sites..... Very crowded.

Anyway, today they opened up the local sites and the diving was excellent!

I am currently writing this using some free Internet access time I got by showing the guy in the hotel how to set up his wireless network!

Anyway, pictures will be posted when I get home, although this year I am not taking many as I find I enjoy the dive more when I am not trying to take pictures all the time.

Another good crowd of people are making trhis trip very enjoyable...

More to come next week when I'm home.

Posted at 18:31 | Comments (0)

Crash Update

Just to let you know the latest......

The car is an insurance write-off, they gave me £800 for it (less excess).

The building repairs will cost just under £1000 (the insurance will pay for this).

A replacement car has cost me £2500.

Posted at 22:37 | Comments (0)