Well today is the last day of my advanced diving course... so just a night dive to go and then tomorrow I'm off to Jordan for two days before I head back to Cairo. I flew into Greece for two days to start with and had a wander round parts of the ancient ruins, but I'll tell you its a grimy city and possibly even more so than London. And before anyone emails me saying that technically Greece and Egypt aren't part of Africa (Blog Title), I know... thats just what I'm calling it for all postings. So then I flew out of Athens for Cairo and transfered to Sharm el Shiekh before an interesting taxi ride up to Dahab. The taxi drivers here seem to love beeping at you and its a darn sight easier to get a taxi here than it is back in the UK. 
Anyhow, I arrived late about 9:30 on Monday night and started the open water course on Wednesday with another Aussie girl, Hayley and a Portuguese guy Pedro. It was fun and all the dives were in the ocean and not in a pool like its supposed to be so that was really cool, but I don't have much to compare it to outside of coral bay in Oz which Dahab trounces by the way. So I finished the Open water PADI course on Saturday and started the advanced course on Monday, which is so much better than the Open water. For the Drift dive we went to a place called bells and exited at blue hole... the reason I mention this is that the blue hole is a coral wall sitting on the side of a self that goes down 180km, yes that not a mistype its actually a wall 180km deep in the ocean. Its a bit scary when you first get in because theres just no bottom and divers have been known to sink and never be seen again. Apparently there was two fatalities here on the day I arrived, but I've got a good dive instructor so it should be OK. So anyway I'm babbling and really need to get going... looking forward to Jordan/Petra and the dead sea tomorrow and the next day and loving all the sun, sand, sea and surf. Just thought I'd rub that in for those stack back in London and yes I know Australia lost to England AGAIN, but any half sane person should have seen their tactics coming. Anyway signing off...Keep safe all...
Ben...
2 comments:
Yikes, a girl died at the blue hole the day I arrived as well!
Mmm... Dahab... if you can survive the food, the rest is nice.
As for Greece, I also used to think it's not part of Africa, but I am not so sure any more...
Anyways, have a nice one!
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