divebunnie

So today we were in Ras Mohammed and I had a great dive on Jack Fish Alley.
This poor site does sometimes get a bad rap. I love the little swim throughs, I love the coral pinnacles and the satellite reef. Or maybe because it is not one of the really really popular sites, it has had a chance to flourish a bit, but today it was glorious! The current was reversed, which I always like because that way you get the alley and satellite reef first, and it was quite strong, so it turned out to be a great drift dive.
We started off by seeing a couple of crocodile fish, followed by a turtle, an eagle ray, the usual blue spotted rays, which was all great. But the really good bit was that the blue scale emperor shoal is back in town! These guys don’t normally turn up in their hordes until late April, but here they were in a nice big gang milling around the coral garden. Once the emperor fish start gathering, that is the sure sign that the sharks will be back soon. Wooo hoo!
In general, probably because of the current, the reef was heaving with fish, a great last dive for our little group. Even though the surface conditions had been a bit on the lumpy side. We could still feel the swell at 16m which wasn’t really ideal.