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Spent two days with Romain from France and our guide Milad at Ras Abu Galoum. A bit more than an hour's Camel ride north of the Blue Hole, this is a wonderful site.
The diving is just a dream, playing between the table coral at the Big Rock dive site is wonderful and almost all of it is wonderfully intact.
When we arrived, we were lucky enough to meet Amy and Jessie from the USA, some of the most open minded US-Americans I have ever met. Very happy to have spent that couple of hours with You girls! :)
After a day of freediving/snorkeling there we got to spend a night out in the desert, sleeping in front of the hut that had provided shelter from the sun during the day.
What an amazing sky presented itself to us. With no artificial light around, except for the remote glow of Dahab's light-polluted beachfront, there were so many stars, that it was overwhelming, trying to take it all in.
And seeing the milky way out there is something that somewhat changes one's perspective on size and importance of our little planet here. A humbling experience - and beautiful.
The glow of the stars above was only accented by the occasional shooting star and the glow of the predatory fish showing off their bioluminescence in the pools with white sandy bottom amidst the coral table right off the beach.
Walking in the water and shuffling one's feet added some more light to the show, with the fish close by flashing their lights out of sheer excitement. :)
What a night! Only to be followed by the next day with two very beautiful SCUBA dives and a relaxing ride home on our friends, the camels of Sheikh Salem.
Ras Abu Galum is said to be like Dahab 30 Years ago. With Dahab growing as it is, I can only hope that electric light and building will yet take some time until they spoil this refuge.
