Last year we went to Egypt with Atlantis Rejser from Denmark. This tour operator did for political reasons not offer these trips anymore. So we chose a tour operator from Sweden, called Scuba Travel. They offered a great liveaboard tour to The Brothers Islands in Egypt. I have heard many times of these islands as one of the most remarkable places in the Red Sea.

Our strip started from Hurghada, where we were picked up and brought to the boat called Hurricane. The boat offers space for 22 divers, and 13 people crew. It has spacious cabins, a dining room, a bar with a flat screen TV, two sun decks, and an open air spa. The local crew including the dive guides were helpful, and made our fantastic trip possible.

I was with my 48 dives the most inexperienced diver on the boat. The other divers had 200, 400 or even up to 1500 dives in their logbooks. This made the diving a lot more flexible, and we got much more off a free hand than I was used to from earlier experiences. That suited me fine because I had my new camera equipment and a new dive computer with me, which required intensive practice. In the first two dives around Hurgahda I got all the technical doubts sorted out, so that I was ready with full equipment for the exciting dives at The Brothers Islands.

But under water, that is where the live was! Big, healthy forests of corals, inhabited by a rich wildlife. There are also two ship wrecks (Numidia and Aida), which sank because they ran on the coral reef. Both wrecks are in great condition, full of corals and life, and well accessible for divers. And then of course, out in the big blue, there were the big fishes.

I am not so much of a ship wreck person. And of the coral reefs I get soon enough, except at night. But night dives are not permitted that far out at the sea, because rescue actions are very difficult out there (currant, waves, etc...). But I have a weakness for the big schools of fishes, and of course the lonely traveling big animals. These animals are full of myths, and interesting in their ways of being. And if patient enough, they come close to check out the divers, so that playing (or in some cases better just watching) interactions become possible.

Amongst the bigger animals we saw on this trip were the Octopus, Crocodile Fishes, Giant Moray, big Napoleon Fishes, very big Tuna, Barracudas, Gray Reef Shark, Oceanic White Tip Shark, and the  Hammer Head Shark (reported by only one diver). And the nicest formation we met was a school of Flat Tail fishes we played with. Apart from those there are also the usual Lion Fishes, Scorpion Fishes, Stone Fishes, Clown Fishes, Trigger Fishes, Picasso Fishes, Parrot Fishes, and many, many more fishes...

So, enough talk! See the pictures!

:-)