The blue hole of Dahab

Can always expect me to say the sun was up and shining at 6am. Consider it a given. Breakfast at 7:30 and studying for the diving test. The people here are happy to talk and want to know where you are from. In America if i say i am a Canadian they say good day EH! Here they say so do you speak french and Canadians are great! The people here are a little different from the rest of Egypt. They are very moderate. You rarely if ever see any of the Egyptian women. The men all work and i understand the women run the home and children.

One Egyptian guy asked me for western woman advice. How to pick one up. I said ask them how they are what they enjoy. Be truly interested. He thought that seemed like a lot of work. he said they say go away. His approach was more of a "I am man you are woman" Well i will have to work with him. Equality if far from reality here.

The day was relaxing. First off to the famous blue hole down a very bumpy road so close to the seat that the jeep was only a foot away from the edge. The dive master Charlotte from Northern France I was also joined my dive buddy Emanuel from Israel Via Switzerland. The other two were from Croatia. Goran underwater Archaeologist and Igor who is a Computer programmer.

The sea was Christal blue and packed with divers. We planned to enter the Canyon first . It was south of Blue hole. First we drop down a crack in the sea and a hole to about 34 meters about 120 feet. it was the deep dive of the course. The visibility was about 80 feet.

it was so relaxing I had barely used under 10 bars of air.

40 minute dive and off to the next site. This is to be one of the best dive sites in the world. It did not disappoint. We had to wait for the ext dive so we went to a Bedouin restaurant on beach for a few hours. The food was good little over priced but to see all the divers and the feel of the place it was good. 5$ for lunch was worth it.....

We geared up for the 2nd dive. we will do a drift dive at about 30 meters. The drop was again through a hole right of shore. The divers were lining up behind us so off we went . One at a time.

Goran was photographing as he went.

opening into the blue sea was hard to explain. It was like looking into space. the drop below us was about 800 meters. Makes you feel very small. Water is 800 times more dense than air.

The rock face went down to the dark below. The fish were like being in my friend Vincents fish tank. topical fish everywhere. My dive buddy Emanuel was one of the best I have had. We stayed close at all times. Charlotte was great communicator. the diver centre is owner by Robert from Winnipeg Manitoba. The octopus Dive centre. Great company to deal with!

On Thursday th eplan is to take a camel dive safari. We do two dives and take the camels in 1.5 hour in and 1.5 out. 95 euros I will see if I can get a better deal from Robert.

We are getting together for a drink and dinner later tonight and talk about the dives.

Will try to get some picks of the dive posted in the next few blogs.