Long sleep yesterday night, as I was
pretty knackered. Jon woke up early again and had breakfast before
Johanna and me, but at 8.30 o'clock we where all ready to go and
dive. We had to take a minibus to get to our dive location today as
their boat is not completely ready yet. Still some permission
missing, but should be ready to go soon.
Arrived at our diving location, Abu
Saille and there where already two or three buses full of divers
getting ready to dive. Once we where up and ready we had to walk
across some sand and rocks to get to our entry point. Dived in to a
hole and had to proceed through a canyon to get to the outer reef.
Lots of other divers around and it was quite some traffic going on
down there. We carried on up north along the coral garden, lots of
coral formations and small fish living everywhere. Saw a few puffer
fish, but none that had inflated themselves. Not supposed to do that
anyway, as it cant be done to many times. Found a hidden lion fish,
probably sleeping as they tend to be night active. Hussein pointed
out a pyjama snail, really small buggers that have a bright
coloration. Back out through the canyon and across the sea floor to
get to the car. De-geared and took the minibus back for some lunch
and rest. Was felling rather knackered, so I had a lot to eat and
drink to get the energy levels up.
Only Jon, Johanna and me today
afternoon with Hussein as our guide for the Marsa Murrain reef. Got
drive there by Mohammed and had the beach for us once we arrived
there. Got geared up and after walking along the beach for a short
while we walked across sand into deeper parts, where we could dive.
Dived across a sandy bottom which dropped of after a few minutes
under water. Really nice seeing that for once, actually. We normally
get into coral reefs and get out at coral reefs (or stones) and this
was really nice to dive along. We found three lion fish once we got
to the corals and dived along those for a while. Turned back around
after half an hour and on the way back we dived through another cave.
Before that we saw a box fish (small one) and after the cave we had a
salad coral full of Christmas tree worms. Once they fell some water
pressure they disappear inside the coral in a split second. We lost
Hussein after messing around a bit, as we where only about 4 metres
underwater and had lots of air left. Raced back to him and got out to
get back to the base in the mini bus again. Got back and hung our
stuff up to dry and wrote our log books before going back to write
all this down and to take the videos of the GoPro.
Dinner after that, once again very
good, before we had one or to drinks and then went to bed early for
tomorrow.
Map of the area here. We are in the
area around Marsa Ghaleb.
Diving time: 57 min. / 63 min.
Diving depth: 23,8m / 21m
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