"Sawa" means "Together" in Arabic. Thats the name of our beach camp on the Red Sea. The Gulf of Aqaba to be exact. I have just been snorkelling about 200m off the beach. Who could have imagined the sea offered riches like Ive just seen, straight off the desert!?! The mountains behind me are jagged and heavily eroded, like a giant gravel slide. Imagine the landscape north of Cairns where the mountains meet the sea. Now imagine not one single t...

Sitting on the fast boat from Aqaba to Nuweiba. In an hour we'll be in Egypt. From where Im sitting I can see Jordan, Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Its mind blowing how many countries are packed into this tiny gulf. We had a little hiccup getting our papers sorted. A man called Ali met us at the port and was supposed to see us through immigration - we got our departure tax, passports stamped and got onto the boat, where Mustafa and Ali left us, only to find we ...