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In October 2013 courtesy of the UK’s Regaldive, I enjoyed seven nights aboard MY Deli a twin mast motor yacht. Our voyage took us from Djibouti Town to the Gulf of Tadjoura where from mid October to February, juvenile whale sharks can be seen. These whale sharks are attracted by plankton ‘blooms’ and our Regaldive group was lucky enough to enjoy several snorkelling encounters with them.
Djibouti sits between the African and the Arabian tectonic plates and as one of my photo shows, it’s possible to dive the crack between the two tectonic plates at a dive site imaginatively called The Crack. I let my buddy Graham Illing do that – why risk both of us! Other dive sites we visited were Deli, Ras Eiro, Shark Island, The Dome, Point Ras Korali, Red Virgin, Star Point, Vicente’s Dive, named after our skipper, Yellow Marker Buoy and bizarrely Stoney Cove. The latter named unsurprisingly by a group of British divers after the well-known site in Stoney Stanton, UK.
Graham and I were joined on most of our dives by Kyle Thorburn and his sister-in-law, Nicky Roach who were great company. Indeed everyone in our group was very friendly.
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