The guy had been to Sharm el-Sheikh. Red Sea. World-renowed diving site. But he didn’t go diving. So I had to ask why.
“I did a bit of snorkelling that’s all. I don’t really like the sea. It’s such an alien environment. It’s best left to the creatures who are designed for it.”
Seemed a terrible waste of one of the world’s best diving locations but yup, the sea is an alien environment, which is precisely why it’s endlessly fascinating. I can’t go into space, I can rarely go into the sky, I can’t climb mountains but the sea is always there. In the sea, you can feel like an explorer in a largely unknown world. Continue reading “The rare Aegean sea pasty and curious creatures of the not-very-deep.”
Boadicea's Chariot 