Up at 4:45 this morning for a snorkeling trip. We drove
about an hour West and had a picnic breakfast before we went out on the tour
boat from the hotel. There were three of us and about 15 more other people on
the boat, more than half were divers and some snorkelers. The boat took us from
Ras As Sawadi where the hotel was to the Dimaniyyat Islands. They are big
chunks of rock in the ocean, with no visible vegetation about an hour ride from
the hotel. The captain took us from island to island where we had many chances
to dive or snorkel. The coral is beautiful and the fish awesome. Blue with
yellow fins, yellow with blue fins, big fish, little fish, sea turtles, large
schools of fish, clown fish and a few non-people eating sharks …little friendly
ones…vegetarian sharks. We arrived back at the
hotel at 3:00 and had a light lunch before returning home, a bit toasted where
we missed the sunblock.
White sandy beach on one of the islands
