The Bankers

Our visit to Sharm El Sheikh, home of some Red Sea fish.

Warning:  If you take Air Sinai to Sharm, allow at least three hours for connections.

Warning: If you want to dive in the National Park, you need the correct visa.  You can get it before you travel (our travel agent said we would have to mail our passports to the Egyptian embassy -- we didn't want to do this), or you can purchase them at the airport in Sharm El Sheikh before you go through the immigration line.

We arrived late one afternoon at the Ghazala Hotel and were on a Sinai Divers boat to a dive site the next morning.  The Red Sea is saltier than the Caribbean so more weight is required.  Add a 7-mil wet suit pants and jacket for the 75-degree water, and buoyancy compensation becomes different.  It took two dives to get used to it.  Bob needed 28 pounds instead of the usual 12 for a 3-mil wetsuit in the Caribbean.

Pictures of a some Red Sea life.

Note:  Even though the Air Sinai flight back to Ben Gurion Airport was a few hours late, we had plenty of time to catch a taxi to the Jaffa Port and have a delicious dinner of Saint Peter's fish at a table at water's edge.