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Old 09/23/2007, 08:47 AM
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Thumbs up Red Sea - Marsa Alam - A LOT OF PICTURE (15mb)

Two weeks ago I went in Marsa Alam - Red Sea to have an holiday with my family, my wife and 2 very young daughters :-)

So I think to show you what I've seen, the structure of the Resort and what I've seen under the sea... the Reef

I stayed at Kahramana Beach Resort ruled by Swan Tour.

It was an amazing place, as you can see in the picture.

We can find two beach in the resort, one is called "relax beach" (yeah translating from italian some terms isn't so easy, and my english doesn't help me so much), and another called "main beach" when you can find tour operator people to help you to fun :-))

Unfortunately in the week we stayed we found the sea isn't so calm, so it's impossibile to see the reef in front of the resort.

So I show you the pictures of the resort, of the two lagoon in front of the resort, of the reef in Abou Dabbab, and expecial from the reef in Sharm El Loli

Al the pictures outside the water was taken with Nikon D80 and 18-200 f3.5/5.6, all the picture from the sea was taken wit Pentax Optio W30

THE RESORT

The view from our room



The sea from our room



One room seen from far away



From our room looking to the desert



From the swiming pool to our room... 261 :-)



From to bridge to the main restaurant in the early morning

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Old 09/23/2007, 08:47 AM
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The Sea...



From the bridge to the sea with the beach at left



Main beach



The Sea



The main swimming pool and the sea from the main reataurant



Relax Beach



Main Swimming Pool



Main beach with low tide



Main beach and beach umbrellas



Low Tide

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Old 09/23/2007, 08:48 AM
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Low Tide again



Main people



The warf... never in use by the condition of the sea



Artistic view of our apartment taken from swimming pool



Swimming pool at sunset



View of the sea, of the wind from the lounge of the swimming pool



Reef Line and The Rocks!



Swimming Pool in the night



Early morning in the main beach

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Old 09/23/2007, 08:49 AM
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...and under the sea???

MAIN BEACH - MAIN LAGOON

Pink Pocillopora



maybe Arothron fishes



Butterfly fish Chaetodon auriga, red sea variety



Small group of fish in front of the beach



Chaetodon auriga near Tridacna maxima and Pocillopora



Abudefduf saxatilis



Two Chaetodon auriga



A rare view of Acanthurus sohal, normally we can find into the reef, here we have not more of 60cm of water



Parrot fish



A very beautiful one, about 30 cm length, of Rhinechantus assasi or arabian picasso triggerfish

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Old 09/23/2007, 08:51 AM
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Sohal



Chaetodon auriga



A wonderful Tridacna maxima



Pufferfishes



I don't know the name...



barracuda, about 30 cm length



Many Tridacne



A beautiful Favia



Rhinecanthus assasi



Small group of Chaetodon auriga

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Old 09/23/2007, 08:52 AM
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one pipefish and one small blennies



Chaetodon fasciatus



A very beautiful Bluespotted Ribbontail Ray - Taeniura limma, only some centimeters from me



Me... ugly :-) with mask



A pocillopora with damsel fishs, maybe aruanus



A very beautiful surgeonfishes



Tridacna maxima



Feather duster worms



Pink Pocillopora



Surgeonfishes in low water, among the other we can see one Zebrasoma Desjardinii

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Old 09/23/2007, 08:52 AM
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Fuscsia Pocillopora I wanted to bring at home...



Small yellow Acropora sp.



MOray eels, one Echidna nebulosa, a small one



Beautiful Favia



Fishes...



Ambligobius phalaena, ...maybe



Under the sea in front of BEACH RELAX

Serpent star in one inch of water



A small one of Chaetodon fasciatus, Red Sea variety



A small one of Pterois, called also lionfishes

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Old 09/23/2007, 08:53 AM
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ABOU DABBAB REEF

As soon I entered into the sea... I see this wonderful fish, a Naso litoratus about 40 cm.





Pseudoanthias squamipinnis... hei you can see them also in my tank :-)



Huge Acropora, about some meters...



What colors...



A beautiful view from the sea... some blue yes... not like our HQi...



Acropora... Acropora... Acropora...



Amazing... two Chaetodon



Again



3 spectaculars fishes... two Chaetodon semilarvatus and one Heniochus intermedius

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Old 09/23/2007, 08:53 AM
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what colors...



Zebrasoma Desjardinii



Many fishes, Chaetodon semilarvatus, Heniochus and one Chaetodon fasciatus



Tridacna maxima above corals



Very beautiful Zebrasoma xanthurum, many Pseudoanthias squamipinnis, above blue view of the reef



From above



One view like this worth the swim :-)



Pseudoanthias... Pseudoanthias and again Pseudoanthias...



Acanthurus sohal



Naso unicornis or brevirostris

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Old 09/23/2007, 08:54 AM
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Caranx ignobilis... 1 meters length...



Beautiful triggerfish, Pseudobalistes fuscus



Corals



Acropora, surgeonfishes and one triggerfish



Fishes in the reef



A beautiful one Naso unicornis, huge one...

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Old 09/23/2007, 08:55 AM
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SHARM EL LOLI

Many Chromis viridis over one yellow Acropora



View...



Acropora...



To die or not to die



Some meters of Acropora sp. and Chromis again



Rhinecanthus assizi and many colored Acropora sp.



Again...



Two Chaetodon semilarvatus



View from the reef again



The blue view

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Old 09/23/2007, 08:56 AM
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The blue with fishes, Pseudoanthias squamipinnis again



Many acropora sp... they seems brown but it's the light



A huge Acropora sp.



A beautiful Acropora microphthalma... In my tank I've one very similar in dimension... :-)



Chaetodon paucifasciatus inside many Chromis viridis



Acropora sp.



To die or not to die part II :-D



Again...



Two wonderful Chaetodon austriacus



One Diploria labyrinthiformis, huge one!

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Old 09/23/2007, 08:57 AM
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To die or not to die part III :-D



Particulars...



Acropora sp. and colors...



Tridacna ...



Another huge Diploria...



Can you imagine how big was this small coral?



The fish and the blue



The fish and the blue... more close to me (or more zoom?)



Zebrasoma desjardinii over a wonderful view :-)



Acropora sp.

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Old 09/23/2007, 08:57 AM
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again...



Chaetodon fasciatus



Chromis, Chromis and Chromis again



More Huge than huge... Diploria



Sea anemones with two clownfishes, Amphiprion sp., and one Lutjanus kasmira



They again



Sharm El Loli beach... white one with soft sand



Turn around of 180° you can see the true desert of Wadi Gimal



Two ones :-)



A very beautiful image of Chaetodon austriacus

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Old 09/23/2007, 08:58 AM
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Tridacna maxima



Blue-colored view



Gomphosus caeruleus



In the afternoon they bring us in another reef... but I don't remember the name...



The boat



Here the corals are more huge than before...



Many black surgeonfishes



Two Chaetodon austriacus in a wonderful view



two Heniocus



More deep you go more blue you see

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Old 09/23/2007, 08:58 AM
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Sweet.... Very nice photography...your cameras did a good job on both land and water!!! Thanks for sharing that great trip here!!!
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Old 09/23/2007, 08:59 AM
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what wonderful view...



Tridacna inside acroporas



Pseudoanthias squamipinnis



To die or not to die part IV...



What colors near the surface



Again



Pygoplites diacanthus, but not so good picture



Chaetodon semilarvatus in ... I've finish my words



Heniochus...



4 meters of acropora sp

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Old 09/23/2007, 09:01 AM
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I want to come back!



Another my pic... ugly fish with mask :-)



Inside the boat... at right you can see Aly, our guide for the tour



Sunset



Danilo 20 september 2007

Sorry for my not so good english, but I hope you have seen the pictures more than reading my comments
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Old 09/23/2007, 09:46 AM
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You did great with the English!!! And the pictures are worth a thousand words for sure....again thanks for sharing...looks like you had the time of your life!!!! Wonderful....makes me want to jump in the SUBA or Snorkel gear and hit the water!!!
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Old 09/23/2007, 10:37 AM
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WOW! Add that to the list of must sees! It's time for another vacation...
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Old 09/23/2007, 07:39 PM
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Old 09/23/2007, 08:45 PM
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Hi,

Nice shots

I was in the Red Sea last week, but I was in a liveaboard

Did you use photoshop in your pictures ?

Some oh them is very colorfull...the anthias are red.....in the ocean they are orange....some SPS are very colorfull too....in the nature I didn´t see all those colors

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Old 09/24/2007, 01:09 AM
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Hi,
Hi Denadai

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Nice shots
thanks a lot, and thanks a lot to everybody for their comments

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Did you use photoshop in your pictures ?
very few, I use to do the watermark and the frame, to resize, and slightly fixing the levels, not to pump one colors or the other.

In these pics it was useful to push out some blue from pics

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Some oh them is very colorfull...the anthias are red.....in the ocean they are orange....
mmm, maybe, but the fishes I saw was very colored too...

another thing, I've the monitor calibrated and I don't see the anthias too reed (maybe one pics)

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some SPS are very colorfull too....in the nature I didn´t see all those colors
please go where I was... it worth a while (maybe it's correct sentence )

The colors of sps are like you see in the wild, with no change in colors at all

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thanks to you!

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Old 09/27/2007, 08:06 PM
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Awesome pics! Thanks for sharing!!!
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Old 09/29/2007, 07:20 PM
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Stunning!

Thank you so much for sharing your images!!

By the way, we are not allowed to have any URLs in our signature line, so you'll want to get that updated before a moderator contacts you.

So many great pictures, I'll probably look at them a few more times as I'm sure I missed so great shots going through them all.
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