divebunnie

Grief, I am really not the best at keeping this blog completely up to date. I’m selling you guys short! Other sites get a daily flow of chit chat and gossip, whereas I get my act together once a month or thereabouts!
Well I can only apologise for my slackness, and fill you in on the latest. I can’t believe I didn’t tell you about my last day’s diving before going home in November. A cracking day out in Tiran! This is fast going up in my rankings as the area to dive, though not quite overtaking my love of Shark and Yolande reefs just yet, I really have had some great diving there.
This day in particular, I was with Del who had been my instructor for my Divemaster course last year, and video Mark (as he is known here in Sharm). We attempted the Woodhouse to Jackson crossing however sadly found the current building against us, preventing us from making it even to within site of the satellite reef. However, after fighting the current for so long, we had a spectacular drift back along the reef, seeing a couple of MASSIVE turtles along the way.
Since fetching my drysuit and warm clothes, ironically, Sharm has been basking in a bit of an Indian summer, with smooth calm waters, and temperatures unseasonably back up in the low thirties on some days! However having made the dash back and finally gotten used to the whole buoyancy and baggy sensations of diving dry, I have not bothered to return to the wetsuit just yet, in spite of the lovely weather.
I have been teaching pretty much most of the time since my return, so have been enjoying the wonders of Temple, Ras Katy and the Gardens over the last couple of weeks. However did get a random day in Tiran again with a very experienced group last week… great stuff! Seeing as the sea was spookily calm it would have been a crime not to have done the back of the reefs, especially as the skipper even suggested that it was fine to pick us up at the back, so off we went:
The first dive we did a semi drift along Jackson, flying past the porites lumps that usually signify the absolute end of the dive. And… joy of joys, we were joined by a lovely big turtle for the last ten minutes of our dive! Yay!
The second dive, with the weather flattening the sea even further, we simply HAD to do the back of something. It would have been rude not to… so the back of Woodhouse it was. And yet another spectacular dive ensued! We saw a baby white tip reef shark!! COOOOL. He (or she) was having a kip in one of the over hangs, however chose that moment to move off and swim alongside me for the next few minutes as we passed… really very cool. It was only just over a metre long and very shiny and new looking. Another great day’s diving!