A week in Nuweiba - The Journey

It started with no hassles at the airport about luggage followed by the usual standard of flight with Easyjet to Sharm.

We were met at Sharm by a Bedouin driver who got us to Nuweiba in a little over 1 ½ hrs where we were met by our hosts, John & Sam Swindale.  They are an English couple who have 3 spare rooms in their house & are putting us up for the week.  After brief introductions, a very welcome meal, beef casserole, was served with a few sakara’s(local beer)  to wash it all down.  The remainder of the evening was spent chatting about a wide variety of things before we all turned in for the night.

DAY 1.

We are diving with African Divers Nuweiba who are located alongside the Swisscare hotel, and run by Sarah & Dan.  We are joined by a middle aged German couple.  After the usual paperwork, we sort our kit out & journey about 20mins north to a site called Angelfish.

There are already divers there, but they are packing up, so we have the place to ourselves. 

Sarah runs through a comprehensive safety & dive brief & in we go, heading to the north.

It is a mainly sandy bottomed, steeply sloping, site with scattered rocks & corral areas.  At 30m there is a small pinnacle that is like an overcrowded tenement block.  All the usual species are there in vast numbers, but nothing big.  What is unusual though, is the high number of Nudibrancs that are to be found here.  Two dives completed it is back to the house for a shower, a few après bubble drinks & dinner.