On our way...slowly

We left Suakin,Sudan on April 7th and are slowly making our way north. I was able to make my first dive in the Red Sea which was on the wreck of the Umbria. It is an Italian ship that was on its way to Massawa when WWII broke out. The skipper of the ship scuttled it rather than let it fall into the hands of the British. There is still cargo in the holds and it would be nice to do more dives on it, but we needed to continue moving. The weather windows where you have good winds can be quite short so you need to move quickly when they occur. We anchored the night of April 8th at Khor Shinab. A khor is a narrow opening into the land that often offers good protection from the sea and wind. Khor Shinab was starkly beautiful, it made you think of a lunar landscape. On the 9th we sailed to Elba Reef, this anchorage does not provide as much protection from the wind, but does have very nice snorkeling and a large number of dolphins that visit daily. The forecast looks like the wind will drop enough tomorrow so we can continue to move north, though it does not look like it will be a long enough window to make it to Port Ghalib. That means one or two more anchorages before we check into Egypt.

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