M/Y blue Fin - Brothers & Elphinstone: 09-08-13 to 16-08-13
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Tippytoes12
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Hi Liam
Sadly we won,t be on this trip , but have just returned from a week on Blue Melody . Our route was similar and we had a wonderful time. The Brothers and Elphinstone are fantastic dive sites , in fact most of the shark action is there now. We saw hammerhead very close at Elphinstone....other shootings included a grey reef shark , a thresher and some very very lucky fellow passengers had a visit from a very friendly dolphin at Elphinstone.
Blue o 2 is a wonderful operator and everything is absolutely top notch....the food, the guides , the cabins and we were lucky to have very friendly fellow passengers.
Have a wonderful trip
Sadly we won,t be on this trip , but have just returned from a week on Blue Melody . Our route was similar and we had a wonderful time. The Brothers and Elphinstone are fantastic dive sites , in fact most of the shark action is there now. We saw hammerhead very close at Elphinstone....other shootings included a grey reef shark , a thresher and some very very lucky fellow passengers had a visit from a very friendly dolphin at Elphinstone.
Blue o 2 is a wonderful operator and everything is absolutely top notch....the food, the guides , the cabins and we were lucky to have very friendly fellow passengers.
Have a wonderful trip
RoyalsWithCheese
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Hi Rusty,
I'm off on M/Y Blue Fin but not until 20th Sept but would be interested to hear your experiances of the boat / crew and what the Brothers and Elphinstone are looking like at this time.
Many thanks
I'm off on M/Y Blue Fin but not until 20th Sept but would be interested to hear your experiances of the boat / crew and what the Brothers and Elphinstone are looking like at this time.
Many thanks
got back a few days ago and i can honestly say it was BRILLIANT! the crew were very good, the meals also and the dive guides were exceptional. We had a guy called luke who is english, if he's there tell him "bubba" thinks he's fat. (his girlfriend told him he was fat so was a running joke for the week.) Honestly, the simplicity of it all with everything made it very enjoyable didn't have to think about a think excluding diving. the diving was very good except the one dive i decided to sit out due to a bad ear, there was a sighting of a manta ray. but all in all i would book with blue o two again and would do the itinerary again.
RoyalsWithCheese
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Just returned from Project shark, Simply the best onboard Blue Fin. Great lectures in the evening from Dr Bojanowski, she definitely knew her stuff. Unfortunately we didn't see any OWT's as water temp was 29/30c and their preferred range was up to 28c. Did see a number of grey reef, a thesher and small school of hammerheads at Daedalus. We dived Elphinstone twice although we attempted more but the weather wasn't playing ball, really quite windy and choppy about half the days, a couple of times the ribs couldn't be used. A manatee & manta were spotted by one of the groups on our boat but not by me. All in all a good trip, good food, good crew and a nice boat.
pughio83
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Thanks for the info. I am off there in 3 weeks for project shark so I am very much looking forward to it. I always have bad luck in egypt sightings wise so hopefully see something good. Looks like u had an excellent trip.
RoyalsWithCheese
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Lucky you, water temp should have cooled sufficiently for the OWT but the trade off might be lack of hammerheads. Defo preferred little Brother to its older sibling but both Elphinstone and Daedalus topped them both on this occasion. Another beautiful sight was the night sky during the overnight crossings, standing on the bow of the boat during rough seas in the dark looking up at Milky Way was pretty awesome. Enjoy and I'll look forward to a post trip report !
pughio83
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Thanks, very much looking forward and hopefully get some clear skies. My top wanna see item is OWT followed by thresher (I know are uncommon there). Hammers are indeed the trade off. Anticipating temps around 25C but luckily I am ok with colder water. Silly question but Did u take any of your own drink or snacks? Never done a liveaboard and don't really know what's on board. Any tips?
well I saw a thresher on the big brother 2 years ago and never saw any hammer heads 
it is all pure luck 
If you do not have specific choies of drinks or snacks then you will find almost everything available, you can get very few just for your convenience (this should go for any liveaboard not just the blue fin)
it is all pure luck If you do not have specific choies of drinks or snacks then you will find almost everything available, you can get very few just for your convenience (this should go for any liveaboard not just the blue fin)
RoyalsWithCheese
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Thresher was seen about 5 mtrs below me on the early morning dive on little Bro. For the best chance of shark sightings don't let Elke out of your sight, honestly her ability to find sharks was quite amazing.
I was going to buy a bottle of JD from duty free to enjoy on board but couldn't see anything smaller than 1ltr so just had a couple of tins of beer each night, oh and a tub of Pringles off the plane. Plenty of food, soft drinks, tea & coffee on board as well as snacks like cereal / wafer bars & fruit. Although I dont remember crisps or nuts being available. You won't starve that's for sure but if I was going again I would take a big bag of nuts, Pringles, Percy pigs & my favourite bar of fruit & nut and keep it in the fridge !
I was going to buy a bottle of JD from duty free to enjoy on board but couldn't see anything smaller than 1ltr so just had a couple of tins of beer each night, oh and a tub of Pringles off the plane. Plenty of food, soft drinks, tea & coffee on board as well as snacks like cereal / wafer bars & fruit. Although I dont remember crisps or nuts being available. You won't starve that's for sure but if I was going again I would take a big bag of nuts, Pringles, Percy pigs & my favourite bar of fruit & nut and keep it in the fridge !
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