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Right! looks like everyone else is too knackered to start this so I'll kick it off. Having done 25 dives (21.5 hours) in 6 days I'll make this the edited highlights, plenty of piccies taken by Fi, Tim and Kate will hopefully follow in due course
Gav, Fi, Dougie & Me crashed at Mark's on the Saturday before hooking up with Tim at the Airport, flight was thankfully uneventful and on time. Met up with Connor (aka Camdiver) and Kate at Oonas on Sunday evening, bought lashings of (not ginger) beer and loaded up onto the M.Y. Juliet Sunday evening. Met our fellow non-YD divers: Robyn, Simon and James who had travelled as a three, and the three intrepid independant travellers: Linda the Ozzy rocker, Katherine the Doctor, and Posh Sue from the BBC (only kidding...
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Monday, before breakfast, was the checkout dive at Temple, followed by Ras um Sid where Gav and Fi saw a whitetip reef shark, no photos so it wasn't counted by the rest of us
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Then Ras Gahzlani (turtle and scalloped torpedo ray). ended the day with a night dive at Ras Katy where we all got stalked by lionfish, some nice squid put in an appearance at the end of the dive.
Tuesday we were in (I stand corrected) Tiran: started with Thomas reef where we dived as the YD six, leaving the others to be led by the lovely Vicky, our dive guide, whose clarion call of "Brrrrreeeeeeeefing !" became the catchphrase of the gig. Saw a cool turtle at 15 metres, Gav and I managed to resisted the lure of the 90 metre deep canyon (gotta go back on Trimix, so tempting...), and I cracked the 168 hours (7 days) underwater barrier. Next was "diver soup" at Jackson Reef (FFS!), followed by the wreck of the Cormaran after lunch - a wreck with a porthole on it! never seen that before
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good diversity of corals on it too. Tuesdays night dive was southern lagoon (Tiran) where we saw "the mother of all hawksbill turtles" who was trying to get some kip, but somehow Gav's light sabre seemed to be p***ing her off.
Wednesday's pre-prandial dive was the far side of Jackson reef where I saw a Hammerhead, unfortunately I don't have a camera and no one else saw it... everyone saw the very chilled out turtle at 15 metres who didn't seem the slightest bit disturded by us gawking at her. Post breakfast was Ras Nasrani where Kate kindly lent me her digital camera, dive passed very quickly as a result - guess what I'm buying tomorrow... Post lunch dive was meant to be Shark and Yolanda reefs but the current had other ideas so we did Anemone City and Shark Observatory - how big was that puffer fish in the cave ? Jeezus !!! give that boy plenty of room or else
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Night dive was (I think) The Alternatives where we saw Spanish dancers, another big pufferfish and Textile cone shells - gotta respect these puppies, can kill you quick as boiled asparagus!
As the only veggie on board the chef prepared the occasional individual veggie dish for me, so could be heard asking "You Steevil ?" as we queued for meals, a very creative blending of "Steve" & "Dr Evil" , I like it
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Part two to follow later, I'm knackered and the foor is still moving, gotta love those "sea legs" eh?
Chee-az
Steevil
Right! looks like everyone else is too knackered to start this so I'll kick it off. Having done 25 dives (21.5 hours) in 6 days I'll make this the edited highlights, plenty of piccies taken by Fi, Tim and Kate will hopefully follow in due course
Gav, Fi, Dougie & Me crashed at Mark's on the Saturday before hooking up with Tim at the Airport, flight was thankfully uneventful and on time. Met up with Connor (aka Camdiver) and Kate at Oonas on Sunday evening, bought lashings of (not ginger) beer and loaded up onto the M.Y. Juliet Sunday evening. Met our fellow non-YD divers: Robyn, Simon and James who had travelled as a three, and the three intrepid independant travellers: Linda the Ozzy rocker, Katherine the Doctor, and Posh Sue from the BBC (only kidding...
Monday, before breakfast, was the checkout dive at Temple, followed by Ras um Sid where Gav and Fi saw a whitetip reef shark, no photos so it wasn't counted by the rest of us
Tuesday we were in (I stand corrected) Tiran: started with Thomas reef where we dived as the YD six, leaving the others to be led by the lovely Vicky, our dive guide, whose clarion call of "Brrrrreeeeeeeefing !" became the catchphrase of the gig. Saw a cool turtle at 15 metres, Gav and I managed to resisted the lure of the 90 metre deep canyon (gotta go back on Trimix, so tempting...), and I cracked the 168 hours (7 days) underwater barrier. Next was "diver soup" at Jackson Reef (FFS!), followed by the wreck of the Cormaran after lunch - a wreck with a porthole on it! never seen that before
Wednesday's pre-prandial dive was the far side of Jackson reef where I saw a Hammerhead, unfortunately I don't have a camera and no one else saw it... everyone saw the very chilled out turtle at 15 metres who didn't seem the slightest bit disturded by us gawking at her. Post breakfast was Ras Nasrani where Kate kindly lent me her digital camera, dive passed very quickly as a result - guess what I'm buying tomorrow... Post lunch dive was meant to be Shark and Yolanda reefs but the current had other ideas so we did Anemone City and Shark Observatory - how big was that puffer fish in the cave ? Jeezus !!! give that boy plenty of room or else
As the only veggie on board the chef prepared the occasional individual veggie dish for me, so could be heard asking "You Steevil ?" as we queued for meals, a very creative blending of "Steve" & "Dr Evil" , I like it
Part two to follow later, I'm knackered and the foor is still moving, gotta love those "sea legs" eh?
Chee-az
Steevil
