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View also Paul’s Video from this trip in Vimeo |
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Trip
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1 – 11 November 2007 |
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Photo-friendly?: |
Yes: camera table, rinse tanks. |
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Number
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16 out of 5.5 days of diving. |
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Diving
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Clear throughout the trip, as usual in the |
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Comments: |
Cruise to We were 8 people, coming from 5 different places to Madrid,
where we all met and took the flights to Hurghada
via Cairo. Nice boat with good cabins, your usual Red Sea fare for food.
Good organisation on board, Divemasters were OK,
but did not really dive with us a lot, we were a group of experienced divers.
We did not see sharks, missed the longimanus (we
only saw one from the boat, in the dark after dinner one day). We liked St.
John’s for the caves and swimthroughs, but hated
Elphinstone this time. Far too many boats, so many divers one could not see
the reef on approach because of the thick curtain of bubbles all along the
wall. How can you ever expect to see sharks like this? I did mostly wide angle photography, which I find extremely
difficult. The opportunities, however, were so many! Paul and I stayed for a 3-day stopover in Cairo and had a great
time playing chicken with cars when crossing streets, had totally unsafe
street food – which was delicious and did not make us sick, and failed
utterly to get in at a genuine belly dancing joint near Giza… They told us
these are not places for tourists, only Saudi rich guys are allowed. The best
was the visit to the Pyramids when we came across a Japanese group equipped
with head torches. Funny! |
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