One thing that we really wanted to do on this trip was to dive the Red Sea in Egypt. Due to a travel advisory in the Sinai region of Egypt, we decided not to travel there but still booked a boat trip from Eilat, Israel. We walked across the Israel/Egypt border to Taba, then went 500 meters to our boat that took us to a couple of dive sites off the coast of Egypt..
We dove two different sites: "Marsa Elmugabila" and "The Aquarium". The Aquarium was the best one of the two as we saw the most fish, and even an Octopus :) The pictures from these dives are more blue than our Bali dive pics because this time we used our new GoPro camera, and it doesn't have a flash to bring out the colours of the coral.
Here's a pic of the octopus…can you spot it? :)
After our two dives we also did a quick stop near a small fortress island to do some snorkelling.
While we were having lunch, one of the ship crew actually spotted a whale shark swimming by our boat!! Dom grabbed GoPro, aimed it off the back of the boat, and hoped for the best. Seeing a whale shark is a really rare occurrence in the area, so we were extremely lucky!!!
