Woo hoo! I got my new BCD! OK I sound totally sad, but you don’t know the difficulty I have had getting the same one that I have now.They had gone out of production, so a friend of mine has ended up running around half of the home counties trying to find one for me. And it arrived (with my friend) today, all shiny and new. I’ve already given it a trial run in the pool (I had forgotten how fast a good low pressure inflator works!!!) and it’s great. So it’s off to get properly christened in Tiran tomorrow. Oooo, let’s pray to the wind gods to stay away…I guess this makes me appreciate how isolated we are here in Sharm. It really is like living on a little island. The mail service is dismal, so mail order is out of the question (added to which import tax makes it all sooo not worthwhile). We are surrounded by sea on most sides, with one road that essentially passes through the town as the only way in or out. The side that is not surrounded by water is desert, with a good hour and a half in either direction before you hit the next town!

Having said that of course, Sharm has become quite cosmopolitan in itself, so unless you want something specific, you can get most stuff here (at a price of course).

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