Stu's visit to Egypt (year 2)
09/28/02
Here's an update of a recent weekend presented in convenient Sports Illustrated fashion. I like to call it "BY THE
NUMBERS". (Coincidently, so does SI.)
104 The number of porcelain toilet bowls I saw on the ocean floor. Remnants of a shipwreck on Yolanda reef on
the Sinai peninsula.
2 The number of camels I saw sauntering across the road in front of our van. Camels are a good example of animals that saunter. They are also the reason we avoid traveling in the desert at night.
1 The number of Leopard sharks circling our boat just before a night dive. Don't let the two meter length scare you. More than half of that is tail. The spots are indicative of its name, but that's where the similarities end. This guy prefers eating things that are already dead and scuba divers are in little danger.
A gazillion The number of stars in the night sky over the Red Sea.
6 The number of Blue Spotted Stingrays sleeping on a single patch of sand.
18 The number of Barracuda you can count in a school until it dawns on you what you are counting and you start swimming in the opposite direction.
5 The number times you can sneeze underwater before you have to take your mask off and blow your nose.
12 The number of hours spent in a van without a book. I bought a candy bar just so I could read the wrapper.
10 The number of Egyptian pounds I paid for a candy bar and a bottle of water at a roadside rest stop. Granted, 10 LE equals 2 USD which isn't outrageous for a snickers and an Evian, but consider that the same items would cost about 4LE in a neighborhood store. It reminded me of prices on the NYS Thruway and Mass Turnpike.
0 The number of times I thought of work.