I have already taught my first course of the year, which turned into an Advanced course and since then, have been guiding, mostly in Ras Mohammed for some reason. Sharm is a little on the quiet side this week, so for the last couple of days I have only had between three and six divers! Lots of space to chill out on the boat. Today we were blessed with four dolphins (two couples I think) who circled us, dancing with each other, riding the bow of our boat. This sort of sight is not completely out of the ordinary, however these beauties stayed with us for about 45 minutes! Very very cool.

Shark and Yolande reefs were very cool too, with a very big napoleon wrasse hanging about each time we dived it over the last few days. He comes right up close to say hello, which sadly indicates, that maybe someone is feeding him, but it is still quite a spectacular sight when he comes right up to you and starts eyeballing you in the hope of the snack he is never going to get. The currents were just perfect too, enough to drift nicely but not so much that there is any hard work at all! Excellent.

Local has been pretty cool this week too… we have had a baby Oceanic White tip hanging around! He (or she) was in the gardens to start with, and first turned up at the back of our boat at lunchtime last week (again a little bit of a worry as someone might be throwing out food to cause this behaviour.. who knows). The baby has now moved location to the Temple and Ras Um Sid dive sites, where he has been spending the last few days.

And.. to top it all, we have been bizarrely experiencing a bit of a heatwave! The air temperatures have been up in the high twenties, if not thirty degrees. And the sea is still around 24ºC which is at least a degree higher than normal for this time of year. I know that doesn’t sound particularly drastic, but believe me, it feels it. How random that the Northern hemisphere is wrapped up in snow while we bask in lovely sunshine. I am sure the winds and clouds will make an appearance before the winter is out for sure. We won’t get away with it that easily for sure.

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