Have a good vacation!
7 October 2003 | ||
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| After PW got all these from the pharmacy, I called him the 'Durchfallprofi'. | ||
Hotel Ruins
9 October 2003 | ||
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| Heading out for a dive our sister ship was parallel to us.... The ruins in the background are all along the red sea coast... Hundreds and hundreds of hotels started and never finished as money and visitors ran out... One day, one of the Egyptian guys told me, they will be finished... at that time the Red Sea coast will be tourist hell all over... Our resort was luckily far away... almost 2 hours drive from Hurghada.... | ||
Deep Blue Sea
9 October 2003 | ||
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| We are going to jump in here! | ||
Red Sea Coast
9 October 2003 | ||
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| Desert and nothing else... Until it was discovered for tourism, this was a wasteland area.... | ||
Lunch
9 October 2003 | ||
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| Nearby resort with its caves... We stopped here for lunch.... | ||
Hanging in there....
10 October 2003 | ||
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| When PW and myself had a photosession.... | ||
Red Sea
10 October 2003 | ||
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| Red Sea Corrals are amazing.... More alive than in the Maldives.... | ||
Bluespotted Sting Ray
10 October 2003 | ||
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| His spots look neon.... Too bad you can't see his yellow snake eyes.... | ||
I saw a shark that long!
10 October 2003 | ||
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| Not sure about his handsign.... | ||
Shark Bait
10 October 2003 | ||
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| Fish, lots of them! And look at the scared look on their eyes! | ||
Napoleon's Bite
10 October 2003 | ||
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| A big Napoleon and a couple of masked butterfly fish.... The fish once mated stay together for the rest of their lives.... | ||
Aquarium
10 October 2003 | ||
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| A couple of pennant fish in a nice pose.... | ||
Life-long couple
10 October 2003 | ||
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| A couple of masked butterfly fish. They stay together all their lives... | ||
A PW Fish
10 October 2003 | ||
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| roaming the sea.... | ||
Eine Seefahrt die ist lustig....
11 October 2003 | ||
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| Very nice diving organization, great boat, good lunches, great corrals... | ||
Hans
11 October 2003 | ||
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| Divemaster Hans from Bavaria at the tip of the boat. He ended up having lived and worked in our hometown. He took us to 38m depth that morning. When he asked us if we wanted a second dive in the afternoon, we declined politely and did a calm nice shallow dive... | ||
Zwei Stella
11 October 2003 | ||
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| Another nice thing after diving are the beers you have.... After that was buffet time... Where a German lady asked the waiter and pointed at some vegetables - 'what do you call these?' - the waiter with a nice smile answered politely 'Aubergines' - 'Wow' she said, 'we call them the same way!'. Diving makes stupid. | ||
Vodka Tent
12 October 2003 | ||
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| You can smoke waterpipes and relax here... And drink really expensive G+T. | ||
Sunset over Mangrove
13 October 2003 | ||
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| The only nice Egyptian sunset we had while there.... Other than that all the days were clear and the sun just vanished... | ||
Rambo
13 October 2003 | ||
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| Rambo, the donkey from the dive operation. He would drag divers equipment and the compressed air bottles from Pier to the Dive org all day on his small cart. There were once two donkies, but his friend had been left untied at one point and committed suicide by jumping into the water and drowning. Poor Rambo. His one pleasure was that every evening he was let out on a leach and would lie with his back on the ground, eeh-aah and scrub his back.... | ||
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