Before leaving we made one last trip out to the Red Sea. I mentioned earlier that this was my our other experience that rivals for best memory out of the whole trip.
One morning Donia and I were swimming in the ocean and a entire pod of wild Dolphins swam right by us! We quickly caught up with them and when they took notice of this they began to circle us. There were at least a dozen of them and they swam in close circle completely surrounding us twice. We were a little nervous but could see that they were curious about what we were. They were checking us out. When we demonstrated to them that we could dive and race and play some of them got so excited!!! They would swim up alongside us playing! When we would slap our hands down in the water to make a splash a few of them would slap their tales down in response. IT WAS SOOOO SOOOO SOOOO AMAZINGLY WICKED AND COOL!
Then they began to move on to continue their fishing, leaving Donia and I completely blown away. We would have followed them around all day long if a couple of idiot workers at the resort didn’t swim up to us pretending to be life guards only to have their pathetic pick-up attempt completely backfire in their face and result in us getting them both fired. But in case you can’t tell I’m still a little furious about all of that so I will try to restrain myself from seething too much and using up all the memory on my blog ranting!
It was a strange day a the beach to say the very least. The tide was behaving oddly and so uncommon sea creatures seemed to be popping up all over the beach. When we were in the water later that day Donia stepped right on top of a bright blue balloon… or was it a ball? Or maybe a plastic bag? No wait I think it’s coming up, maybe it’s a… OH MY GOD IT’S A JELLY!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Thankfully Donia had stepped directly on the top of the strange Jellyfish and so had not been stung. We have seen many many jellyfish on this trip but none of them anywhere near as big and with such fantastic colouring. Even though it left Donia shaken and scanning the water every 30 seconds for anything blue it was still a pretty cool encounter.
There was also a very odd minow that insisted upon running into the two of us and would not go away. It was so persistent that I eventually picked it up in my hand and placed it back in the water facing another direction.
Donia and I went for a tour of the horse barn that night and were introduced to all the handsome ponies that lived there. The owner of the resort’s son is a competitive jumper and his world-champion horses come to the resort in the summer for some time to relax!
The handlers who worked in the barn were so happy to have people there who were interested in the ponies and couldn’t help themselves gushing about them and telling stories.
Like the stallion Sphynx who has such a sugar tooth he broke out of the container he was in on an airplane and ate an entire shipment of grapes. Or the time he put a hole in the side of the transport trailer truck that he was being moved in because he was in a bad mood.
All of the horses we saw there were beautifully cared for with wonderful temperaments toward us and their handlers.
The next morning when the horses were coming out for their morning cool-off swim in the ocean the handlers waved me over and let me ride around in the Ocean on a beautiful grey stallion. It was so wonderful!
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