OP
Some big fish out today -
Giant Trevallies in the Saddle at Shark and Yolanda, and there's a few more snappers hanging about. They look like the first few guests arriving at a party who don't know each other... "can we try the peanuts or do we have to wait until the other 50 people arrive? So, what's your name". Still a good sign though. Saw some big old tunas maybe 1.25m and one diver saw a "big-ish" shark which we later identified as a spanish mackerel - common mistake, they do get very large and swim in a very shark-like fashion.
Small schools of Jackfish at Jackfish Alley which is a bonus because in the winter time we have been removing the "f" from Jackfish Alley, rearranging the letters and adding a "t", giving the place a slightly different but much more fecal name. Two very beautiful dives and even though it's Easter Sunday, I jumped Shark and Yolanda at 10:30am and there was only one other boat at the reef at the same time, and we never saw their divers. Exactly the same in Jackfish.
Beautiful diving, good currents the last few days making for very easy drift diving (assuming your dive guide checks the current and jumps in the right place!) and some good stuff returning to the reefs in Sharm.
And hey - we just had the spring full moon - so very shortly there's going to be a lot of baby fish looking slightly terrified and trying to avoid the lionfish because the whole reef is - hmmm - to coin a phrase - "getting jiggy with it"
Loving it here right now!
Cheers
C.
Giant Trevallies in the Saddle at Shark and Yolanda, and there's a few more snappers hanging about. They look like the first few guests arriving at a party who don't know each other... "can we try the peanuts or do we have to wait until the other 50 people arrive? So, what's your name". Still a good sign though. Saw some big old tunas maybe 1.25m and one diver saw a "big-ish" shark which we later identified as a spanish mackerel - common mistake, they do get very large and swim in a very shark-like fashion.
Small schools of Jackfish at Jackfish Alley which is a bonus because in the winter time we have been removing the "f" from Jackfish Alley, rearranging the letters and adding a "t", giving the place a slightly different but much more fecal name. Two very beautiful dives and even though it's Easter Sunday, I jumped Shark and Yolanda at 10:30am and there was only one other boat at the reef at the same time, and we never saw their divers. Exactly the same in Jackfish.
Beautiful diving, good currents the last few days making for very easy drift diving (assuming your dive guide checks the current and jumps in the right place!) and some good stuff returning to the reefs in Sharm.
And hey - we just had the spring full moon - so very shortly there's going to be a lot of baby fish looking slightly terrified and trying to avoid the lionfish because the whole reef is - hmmm - to coin a phrase - "getting jiggy with it"
Loving it here right now!
Cheers
C.
