georgebackhus on May 30th, 2007

28 April
We had enough light at 0700 to see our way out of the pass into Elba Reef. We spent the day motor sailing northward, finishing at Shab Abu Fendera (Fendera Reef), just across the border into Egypt, at about 1530 hours. This was after being converged upon by a very large pod of mischievous [...]

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georgebackhus on May 20th, 2007

We were picked up by a mini bus at 0530 and headed for Luxor, along with our cruising friends Susan and Ron from Gemini, who would be our traveling companions for the next week. We were on vacation!!! We headed to the town of Safaga where we joined a police-escorted convoy of tourist buses headed [...]

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