It’s been a while since I’d been to Dahab, so it was good to get out there again with my buddy Gilbert.<\/p>\n
I’d never been at this time of the year before, and the life was subtly different – and there were some real highlights.<\/p>\n
One of the busiest sites in Dahab is the Canyon – which you get to through a sandy lagoon. Well, we found a ghost pipefish on day 1 (Gilbert reckons it was a mangrove leaf, sculpted with nail scissors)<\/em>. This is the first one I’ve managed to photograph in the Red Sea, although I saw one on Shark & Yolanda a couple of years ago (I didn’t have a camera with me though).<\/p>\n Another busy site – often used to train “newbies” – is Lighthouse – and we found a Seahorse (another first) and a Sea Moth (aka “Short dragonfish) there.<\/p>\n There were also lots of Red Sea walkmen (aka “Two stick stingfish”) – ugly blighters. We’ve really had to look hard for these in the past.<\/p>\n In terms of camera gear, I took my 50mm macro lens, but usually used it with a 1.4x teleconverter – so those images show up as “70mm” in the metadata. Otherwise, I used the 14-54mm.<\/p>\n We stayed at the Hilton – very pleasant – and ate n the town most nights.<\/p>\n