Reluctantly we left Dahab and travelled down the coast to Sharm El Sheik a popular holiday destination. We stopped off and had coffee, they had a Starbucks! and wandered around buying our mask and snorkel for the National Park. As with everywhere else in Egypt there is a lot of security at Sharm as it has been a target in recent years for terrorist attacks, consequently there are police checkpoints all over the place.

We moved on to the National Park which is a penninsular jutting out into the Red Sea and we camped right by the side of the water. It was very quiet and the only other people came by boat from Sharm El Sheik for the fantastic diving and snorkeling. We snorkled here and found it as good, if not better than anything we had seen on the Barrier Reef in Australia simply because there weren't as many boats and people and the coral was much better preserved. There was nobody else around during the night but when we got up in the morning our shoes and flipflops which we left outside the camper were spread all over the beach and one of Peter's sandals was missing altogether. There is wildlife on the peninsular but we put it down to the dogs from the guard house we passed through on the way in, on an evening forage making off with one of the smelly sandals!!!