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Rocky, Zabargad, St Johns safariThe most southern reefs of the Egyptian Red Sea are visited on this safari. Zabargad Island is a wonderful dive site offering wall diving, a wreck and shallow areas with dozens of slender coral towers. Here live a great many tropical groupers, which are easily approached and photographed during a dive without equals in its category. When diving here at night you will find octopus, crustaceans and nudibranches emerge to crowd through the coral grottos. Rocky Island is a small fossil-coral island that emerges from the surface, elliptical in shape, surrounded by a surface level reef. The island sinks it walls down to more that 1000 metres of water. The walls are covered in soft corals and huge gorgonians which float and wave in the current. It is possible to sight many species of shark here as well as sailfish, dolphins and manta rays. St John's is a beautiful reef system which
lies approx. 40km north of the Sudanese border and 20km South of
Zabargad. It
is a vast collection of small reefs offering some of the most remote
and rewarding diving in the Red Sea. Habili Ali offers giant
gorgonians and black corals whilst Grey Reef, Silvertip and schools
of Hammerhead sharks might be found on the west side. Habili Gafaar
is a mass of soft corals teaming with shoals of Snappers, Butterfly
Fish and Barracudas. Mantas, Oceanic White Tip, Grey Reef and
Silvertip Sharks can be seen in the blue. Gota Kebir is a massive
reef, famous for its tunnels and south plateau where Jacks and
Barracudas can be seen and the occasional Manta. The tunnels are
ideal for novice cave divers.
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