Yes it was back to guiding this week, which was cool.

We had a good bunch of guests, one of whom was a bit of a fish magnet, so that was great. Whenever he was in my group, he spotted all the fish!!! I would be focusing on a nudibranch or trying to point out a scorpion fish hidden under a coral tree, when he would be pointing frantically out to the blue at a huge napoleon wrasse!!! Another dive, I was bimbling along, again looking for little stuff, when he grabbed my leg to show me three very big eagle rays gliding past!! Very cool stuff. To doubly confirm his status, when he went on a different trip to us, they only got to see a whale shark!!!! Wow!

Talking of whale sharks, we are not sure if it is a single one, or several, but they have been cropping up again in and around Ras Mohammed. Well the temperature has dropped and there is a bit of plankton around, so maybe they have come back from wherever they hid during the summer. I’m not about to complain, and am quite happy to have another whale shark fest this winter. Wouldn’t that be fantastic if this became a seasonal event???

The water has cooled off a bit, but it is only the guides that are complaining so far. The sea, after an initial drop, has warmed back up to around 25-26ºC, so it is only the wind chill that is really making anyone feel cold.

So it is the weekend now, and I actually have both days off, so that is a nice chance to relax a bit…. fix the drysuit (yes, it lasted a mere month before leaking like a drain yesterday!) and of course do all the usual home stuff that we all end up doing on our days off wherever we live… washing cleaning etc… even in paradise hehe.