We have been really lazy lately to update our blog. Sorry about that. We had a fortnight break of the heavy travel, so to say, by the beach, first in Aqaba, Jordan, and then in Dahab, Egypt.

Most of the time we just hanged around, read books and relaxed, but also did some snorkeling, and I went scuba diving a few times. Red Sea is great destination for that with all its clear waters, visibility minimum 30 meters. I did some great and easy dives in Aqaba, shallow ones with loads of colourful fish and corals.

In Dahab I dived in the infamous Blue Hole, “World’s Most Dangerous Dive Site” or “Diver’s Cemetery”. It has claimed dozens of lives, true, but usually due to the divers’ own stupidity. It’s a 130m deep submarine pothole, with an easy entry in 6m. Accidents happen when divers attempt to find The Arch, a 26m long tunnel through the reef at depth of 52m. It’s not safe to dive this deep without technical diver training, and even then its challenging with all reduced light and visibility, currents, and nitrogen narcosis begins to have an influence.

Even if am sometimes a bit reckless am not suicidal, so I didn’t even try to find The Arch, don’t worry. The dive itself was really cool, especially the entry from a place called The Bells, where you descend through a narrow rock gorge into the blue. That feeling, submerging into the depths, is my favourite thing in diving. Its like flying without a fear of crashing down. Its pure joy.

Also a dive site called The Canyon was really cool, a sort of a tunnel in 27m. The air bubbles of the divers’ cache in the tunnel for minutes and then brake through slowly from the small holes, so the whole thing sparkles like a giant glass of champagne underwater. Simply beautiful.

I like my depths, but Sasi loves his heights, so he decided to climb up to Mount Sinai. He will tell you more about that later.

Maiku, now suffering from pharaonic fatigue.