The Red Sea is AMAZING!

It’s like being in a giant aquarium full of tropical fish. No, wait: it is a giant aquarium full of tropical fish. Anyway it’s very, very cool. Unfortunately it’s also pretty cold at this time of year and I wasn’t able to stay in for more than about 10 minutes at a time. Lydia, who is more used to being cold, managed to stay in for much, much longer. In fact she would probably still be in there if I hadn’t dragged her out. I never thought there would be so many different kinds of amazing fish all in one place let alone that place being just off the beach - not at some remote dive site. Even the few varieties of rather dull fish look amazing because they are now the exception. “o oo! a uu iii!” (translation for those not versed in Snorkelish: “Oh look! A dull fish!”).

New years was nice and we’re off to Luxor tomorrow (14 hour bus ride - wooooo). Gotta go.