Day 4

Hmm - not been any updates cause I've been doing FA really.

GOpro wise - yeh - its the curved lens - if I'd brought one of my flat
waterproof cases I'd have been alright. As it is, its useless
underwater this trip.

It has been reaaally windy the last 3 days - I went out snorkeling on
monday, but was lucky to get back of the reef to be honest - the
current was sucking me off it, and then sort of like a washing
machine. After struggling against it for about 15 minutes, I ended up
having to grab the coral with my hands and sort of pull myself along
the bottom, come up for air, and repeat. Was knackered when I got back.

Maybe that was why no one else was snorkeling :-/

Anyhoo, last few days it has been about 30mph+ wind and 5 feet high
swell with 2-3 foot breakers... so NOT snorkeling weather :-)

So - sitting around pool, finished the last book in the Lisbeth
trilogy. Started editing my Las Can video again today.

They are still going out scuba diving twice a day, but to be honest,
I'm not bothered about that at the mo - would rather just relax.

Wifi is available, but very very slow - so the odd email is about all
it's up to.

That's me over half way through my holiday - only 2 days to go!!

IF I was here for a week... but I'm not! yeeeehh... so another 10 days
to go.. sweet.

Maw - if you read this - I have been wearing suncream every day and
have not got in the least burned even thought temp is about 35 (wind
makes it seem deceptively cool). I'm just going nicely brown (not
something you hear a scotsman say very often).

Egypt Again - Dahab

Hot and Windy. Good combination.

Just by the pool today - I'll try snorkelling for the first time tomorrow.

I tried my 'equipment' today - I brought the monopod that I use on the paramotor - it basically allows me to mount my panasonic camera on one side of it, and the gopro on the other side. I thought it would work well in the water.

So tried it in the pool today - checking it worked and was waterproof, etc.

Waterproof wise, it works fine. However the problem is the gopro is a fixed focus fish-eye lense. It _says_ its 60m waterproof... so you'd think/expect it would work underwater.... however it did not mention... that every frame will be blurry as feck.... must be the optics not up to working under water with the refraction. bummer.

Ill have a look on the internet to seeif anyone has a solution