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Now I am not one to moan, but when you have a group of guests who have never dived in the Red Sea before you suddenly see your back yard through fresh eyes again.
We had one such group this week, and what a refreshing change is was to hear their comments as they came out of the water. Now I know it is winter, so ok most of the sharks (but not all!)have gone south for the hols and maybe some of the fish are a little smaller than in the summer, but we still have some really quite fantastic diving here and I was reminded of that this week.
To hear people raving about the coral and the colours and fish after even the most gentle of local dives is really invigorating. And the comments made as the guests jumped in on the garden of Jackson Reef were fantastic. It reminded me of how lucky I am to be living and diving in such an amazing place. All too often we get the odd person who comes out here (usually from a cold and wet place) and loudly announces in front of a boat load of other divers “Oh I hate that dive site! It is soooo dull!” When in reality none of our dive sites are really really dull… especially any site in Tiran or Ras Mohammed. I can understand some stand out more than others. However this week I did not have this situation, every dive site brought renewed exclamations of awe and reminded me to really look at what I am seeing more often. What a great week.

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So once again we have the build up to New Year’s eve and what our plans were to be.
Last year went a bit awry, and call me superstitious but we did have a few hiccups along the way, so we really wanted this year to be a bit of a reprive.
Sadly it did not get off to the best of starts. You know when your gut feeling is saying “not a good idea!” but you kind of have to go with what is being planned? Well that was how our new year’s eve started. I won’t name names, or rather places, as that would just be churlish. But I will say that our choice of venue was just faaar too pretentious for a group of diving instructors who just wanted to party and welcome the New Year in with a bang. Not saying we don’t scrub up well, far from it, but this night is one of those nights where the atmosphere is sooo important. And whilst it was important for us all to be together with our friends, we also needed a few other people in the venue to add a little buzz, and the wine to be a little less pricey. There is no easier way to ruin a good party than by making your punters feel like they have been well and truly ripped off. Anyway, less of the negative, the evening was rescued by our departure from the “morgue” to a more down to earth bar where we ended up dancing on the speakers and getting well and truly…@*/+@£#ed! So all in all, by the end of the night, a great time was had by all.

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