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Well back to guiding again this week. This time we had quite a contrast of abilities on the boat, we had some with hundreds of dives, and some with less than ten, so the group was inevitably going to go separate ways the next day. It’s always a toughie that one, I have had divers with less than 10 dives who were sweet as in the water, and ones with over 100 dives struggling to get control. However at the end of the day, experience does generally rule the roost and my first reaction is not to take anyone inexperienced too far afield.

Day one is always spent local on our nice gentle dive sites. Even then, by the afternoon the wind had picked up too much for one diver who opted not to jump in on the second dive (and wisely so… too many people allow pressure to force them in when they would really prefer to sit that one out). Of course, typically, despite the choppy surface conditions, it was really quite lovely down below.
So day two… and the more experienced ones came with us to Tiran, which was unusually flat for this time of year. Great! We did Jackson reef as a drift (not possible or advisable on rougher days) taking in both gardens, which was lovely although the visibility was strangely very murky. Followed by Thomas reef (again a fair weather reef due to its small size). A few managed to get nearly all the way around. Finally on the way back, we did a gentle shallow drift on Ras Bob… not worth going below 20m on this one as the shallows are just soooo pretty.
Yesterday it was off to Ras Mohammed for us… straight out to Shark and Yolande where we flew across the front of shark, saw the gang of barracuda on the front of Yolande and ended on Turtle rock among hordes of glass fish. The middle dive was on Ras Za’atar, definitely one that needs to be done in the morning at this time of year. We went further round the corner than usual, as the counter current only lasted for a few metres before switching back to the normal direction so we pottered among the garden area again swarming with glassfish… and not to mention the heaps of jelly fish and tunicates drifting along with us (always a good bringer of life to any reef).
The last dive was along Ras Ghozlani, better than many of the Ras Mo dives in the afternoon, as it has a plateau so isn’t quite as smothered in shadows as many other reefs this side of Shark and Yolande.

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