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Living and Diving in Sharm el Sheikh
Jan
29
And so… back to the diving once again
Filed Under (Day to Day Stuff, Dive Log) by divebunnie on 29-01-2010 and tagged divebunnie, Drift Diving, Egypt, Ras Mohammed, Shark and Yolande, sharm el sheikh
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Well it has been over a week now since the storm, life has been back to normal since the day after it all happened, and we are still talking about it! Well we don’t get a huge amount of weather here, and pretty much everyone was affected in one way or another, so I guess it is a novel topic. Back in the water, the visibility is back to normal (phew!) as is the weather. Instead of the glorious heatwave we were having before the storm, the temperature has plunged down to its normal winter level… OK let’s face it, even that is still pretty warm, we are talking about 22ºC instead of 28ºC, before you start to think we too are experiencing the arctic here. Amazingly the water is still a lovely 24ºC (a good couple of degrees warmer than normal), even in Tiran which is normally a degree or so cooler than everywhere else. Well we were in Ras Mohammed yesterday and had a glorious day. It started pretty well too… as we dropped down, I saw something floating down out in the blue (a shoe or something?) no… it was a spanish dancer!!! Wow! We don’t normally see them in the daytime, and even at night they are pretty rare! This one was out in the blue and as I approached decided to dance for me… how beautiful. It did the perfect body ripple, wafting its “skirts” at us. Amazing. We hung around with it for a good few minutes so we could all get a glimpse before heading on our way. Next up was a turtle, what a dive! We had jumped in for a gentle drift and everything shows up… we also saw a huge shoal of jackfish, something we would expect on Shark and Yolande reefs more than Ras Ghozlani. Not a bad start to a lovely but slightly chilly day.
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