El Quseir

Ecuador infected me with a new passion that was slumbering deep within me. Diving! It did not took much time after Cuba and I started to dive in German lakes. It was as horrible and senseless as I imagined. Cold dead and most of the time not even deep. It helped to cure some symptoms and diving in total darkness along a steep wall dropping 90m (300ft have to get used to this weird imperial system) infuses a comfortable feeling of anxiety.

El Quseir was my first chance to dive again in a living environment with my equipment and most important my beloved camera. It is a great fun to assemble the underwater case the first time. It takes hours. You have to make yourself ridiculous when you test it in a pool. You have to carry additional 8kg (17 pound). Big fun when you are fighting your way through the waves of a reef top, wheny you try to ballance to get on your fins and then to get to the entrance that is a narrow cave system but it is worth the effort.

[PHOTO: Lionfish close-up] [PHOTO: Two smaller underwater creatures]

[PHOTO: Spotted ray on sand] [PHOTO: Striped tropical fish]

[PHOTO: Coral reef scene with anemone and fish]

More as always on my Flickr stream.

Have I mentioned that I don’t like Egypt? No? OK, I don’t like Egypt! 😀

[PHOTO: Resort pool with lifeguard - commentary on evolution]

Take the time to understand the picture. There is a lifeguard! How the hell can somebody drown in this pool? Do we really want to trick out evolution that way?

[PHOTO: Beach with neatly aligned shoes and waste bins]

Look at the neatly aligned shoes. Look at the different waste bins. Scotty beam me back to Uyuni!!!

[PHOTO: Pier/jetty extending into the Red Sea]

Swiss perfection…

[PHOTO: Divers preparing equipment on pier]

You just do not have to care about anything. They are anxious to drive you out with the Zodiaks because you get wet (the Swiss could see it) but the divemasters take the risk to choose a path to exit the reef through an unknown cave system with bad visibility, where you can not turn around and just 30 Bar left. I now know, why I love MY dive configuration!