Nuweiba PhotoWorkShop

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The whole group arrived safely in Nuweiba at the Swisscare Hotel on Saturday morning. We didn’t lose much time and were in the water with Sarah and Daniel at 12 o’clock …some even earlier 🙂

A nice and quiet dive next to the pipeline to get used to the camera gear again and for others getting used to saltwater in general.

Yesterday we had to great dives at Maga’ana with lovely swim-throughs on the first dive. Wide angle heaven!

The second dive was more into macro.

Today we went to Sinkers. This is actually a buoy which was installed 25 years ago in 35 m of water with a chain of only 25m…hmmm

well it ended up becoming a great dive site 🙂

In general there are lovely angler fishes around…Frances, Papa Frances or Geraldine (commonly known as Pink ass), lots of mating octopi, huge ugly stonefish and lots more.

We’ll keep you updated

Frances and Vicky

Wallpaper July

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Here comes the new wallpaper for July. This little hawkfish just settled down for a couple of seconds on this green featherstar when I passed by during one of my dives around Anilao last year. I tried different lightening techniques. This is the one I love best.

Hope you enjoy!

CClick on the image to download the wallpaper size

La Gombe : the plane

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I have been diving the Gombe quarry a couple of times now and mostly post pictures from the sturgeons. This dive site features as well two major wrecks : a tank and a plane. The plane was donated by the Belgium army. It is a F-84F Thunderstreak.

Here a view of the quarry before it transforms into a huge steam bath. On week-ends more than 100 divers enter this little pool in the afternoons. So the best time to dive is on Saturday mornings.