What a blast! Sometimes literally. We had four divers for today's underwater expedition: Vance, Maha, Jane, and myself. The view underwater with the Night Vision potion really is extraordinary.
Takes me back to the beginning of my life abroad when I was working in Saudi and driving down to the deserted beaches on the Red Sea on weekends to snorkel. I packed light. Often nothing more than a sheet for sleeping, a few liters of drinking water and a packet of fig newtons purchased in a village market on the drive down. We'd be up at dawn, snorkel in the warm water for an hour or two, come grudgingly back ashore for water and a snack and a brief rest, then back out onto the amazing reef beyond which the sea floor dropped way way off. We'd do at least three sessions a day. Then climb back in the 4-wd for the bone-jarring, hair-raising drive back up from sea level to 6,000+ feet in the Asir.
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