Diving was in the Zodiac today. To get
to it we had to walk along the beach for about ten to 15 minutes, the
beach being full of small crabs that run away once you get to near.
Also some moving stones. Got everything geared up and then carried on
to the Zodiac. Rather a long drive out, but with the waves being a
bit high we had a form of entertainment. Reached our diving position
and after getting everything on, which proofed to be a challenge on
the small boat with nine other people, we tipped back in the water
and where ready.
Dived down to the floor of the reef
where the first mayor thing we saw was a sunken reef where everything
was overgrown with corals. A blue spotted sting ray was resting under
the reef. Carried on along and swam over and around some super
boulder-like reef formations. Really have to understand buoyancy to
have a lot of fun with flying down there. Went from one sandy inlet
to the next and spotted a load of clown fish with their anemone. One
being a really vibrant red colour, nearly neon like. Carried on and
Salah pointed out a baby white tipped reef shark, hiding under some
corals. It was moving around a bit but rested again shortly after we
had found it. Looked at it a bit closer, but was told by Salah to
stay a bit away as it was only small and wanted to probably sleep.
Continued on and where led to the entrance of a canyon which we dived
through after Salah asked if we where OK with diving under corals and
through tight spaces. I felt bad going through there. Not because of
the space, but because every time I squeezed through a tight spot I
would hit something. Luckily no easy damageable corals, as it was the
rock type, but still. After coming out we resurfaced and I
unfortunately dropped a piece of led on the way up. Salah dived back
down to get it, as I didn't have my flippers on any more. Once Ali's
group had been picked up as well we went back to the base, Johanna
spotting a lot of flying fish on the way. Back on the peer we just
changed our bottles, went to have a tea and then back on to the
Zodiac for the second dive. This time to Talala. On the way
we spotted a shoal of dolphins and a rather large one as well. So the
dive was postponed a bit and as we where the only boat around we
jumped into the water for a few minutes of diving with wild dolphins.
They disappeared after a short while and we where left in the blue
before being picked up to get back to our diving location. Going down
I noticed some really painful stings in the cavity of my nose so I
did a small break and carried on down after a while. The pain stayed
with me for about the whole dive but it was bearable most of the
time. We saw a murrain ell and some monstrous (probably) sting ray
which had it's tail cut of. We had to check that once we where back
in the base, as not even Salah knew what it was and Ali's group
didn't see it. Back in the boat without a hitch this time and then we
where back to the base for good today. A sea turtle resurfaced at one
point on the drive, but disappeared again very fast. Got our things
of the boat and cleaned before writing to log book entry’s and
having some late lunch. Got a bit of a head ache, so we will probably
not do the night dive today.
Back from dinner now, managed to have a
lot again, energy for tomorrow. The food here is actually very good
and we often have a lot to eat.
Of to sleep now to hopefully get rid of
the light headache.
A local reef map here, we are in the
area of Marsa Ghaleb. Diving time: 62 min. / 60 min.
Diving depth: 16,2m / 18,4m
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