DATELINE: SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT

Leaving for Tripoli today, where we will meet up with the fifty-nine other people on our intimate little eclipse tour. Managed to be somewhat lazy in Sharm and get nine dives in five days. I saw many blue spotted stingrays, two eagle rays, two giant morays (gymnothorax javanicus), a few huge Napoleon Wrasses and ( Read more... )

I am updating from the library -- not just any library but the (and I cannot find the HTML tag suitable to this without recourse to ) Library of Alexandria, the symbolic restoration of the world's greatest center of intellectual exploration and free inquiry; you are not allowed to access Gmail from the library's computers.