this one'll be short and sweet, i promise. i just needed to bang out those last 3 emails to catch up and get them out of the way!!
I've just spent the last 3 days back here in Dahab on the Sinai Peninsula, soaking up loads of gorgeous warm sun, and diving the depths of the Red Sea, spotting strange and unusual colorful fish and coral.
I'm at a spot called Penguin Village, but strangely enough, i ain't seen any penguins here!! The pace here is marginally faster than snail, and the guy who runs the diveshop/restaurant/hotel complex is this awesome laidback Egyptian fella who goes by the name of Jimmy. The restaurant is an outdoor, sit down on rugs and cushions affair, right by the sea, so that when the tide comes in, just a couple of palm tree logs and some wooden palings seperate you and your food from getting soaked!
Just imagine sitting right at the edge here in the morning, watching the sun rise over the sea, with the desert mouuntains of Saudi Arabia looming in the background, sipping a freshly squeezed mango juice and eating choc-banana pancakes, and you've got me this morning down to a T. This was followed by a short drive down the beach for a nice 40 minute, 32metre deep dive at Blue Hole (bottom depth unknown, but measured at one point at 200metres), one of the most amazing and famous dive sites in the world, then by a leisurely lunch while a local Bedouin girl made a cotton bracelet for me, and then another dive in the afternoon at The Canyon. All of that was pretty hard work, so i just had to have a beer or 2 back at Penguin Restaurant before i started reeling off all these emails!
Its a Full Moon tonight, and it's beckoning me from the window of this net cafe to come and join it downstairs for dinner, so i'm gonna take it up on it offer now.
Hope you've enjoyed the tales - i've got one last mad dash to make to Vancouver later this week, and i'll tell you about that when it happens, but for now, that's my Middle East Adventure over.
Cheers,
Tony
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