Sea-ing Fish

The Red Sea has some of the world's most spectacular coral reefs.  Some say they are better even than Australia's Great Barrier Reef.  There are three ways to see the beauty.

Scuba:  This takes equipment and training.  We have friends who do this regularly.  We do not.

Snorkeling:  This involves minimal equipment and cost,  However, this does involve getting into the water and swimming or at least floating with some kind of flotation device.  Those of you who know me well will realize that this is something which I am not comfortable doing.

Glass bottom boat.  Now, that is something I can do, so I did.  After about a half hour drive through Sharm el Sheikh, we arrived at a resort, one of many, which had a floating dock out to glass bottom boats.  The arrangement was to have 8 windows in the bottom of the boat with seats all around, so you can see whatever is below the boat.  Our boat traveled to an area where the coral is close to the surface.  Fish like the coral area because some eat the coral and others like the plankton churned up by the boat.  Without further ado, I present some of what we saw.

Yes, this is a fish, but just the front half!

Our boat left from a nice resort, one of many which lined the beach. 

Where there was irrigation, the plantings flourished.  But away from the tourist area, this, too, was a desolate rocky area.


Sharm el Sheikh is at he very tip of the Sinai Peninsula.  It looks as if it could be a part of Africa, but it is actually part of Asia.  Arabic is the main language spoken here, as in the rest of Egypt.