For Mom, Love Steve

It’s time to get moving. Regardless how long I could stay, it still came down to the point that I have a job to do. Scratch that, job and me will not co-exist. Jobs are for other people, not me. It’s basically time to stick a fork in Africa and get on with part 4, the Middle East. But in the mean time, a few photos I did manage to break my rhythm and take.

Not just another sunset, this was my office after a hard days work.

Some shots of the Soft Beach Camp and the side of the bay with the other Bedouhin style camps. Soft Beach is all sand and definitely the best camp on the bay. My hut was the one right in the middle of the photo #10 facing the ocean.

You know when your in an exotic place when Camels just wander around aimlessly. Free range camels I guess you would call them. Good eating too. Tastes like salmon*.

Nura and Amira were my two playmates as well as co-parents to our ten puppies. They were from Switzerland on vacation with their moms. We had a good system as feeding eight exuberant and hungry puppies and two runts who were too weak to participate was a bit overwhelming at first. One would take the two runts and hand feed them while me and the other would keep the little food vaccuums fed. Swimming was pretty much the rest of the day.

Some of our babies. Since I was leaving and didn’t want anyone else to play with them I had them all put to sleep*.

*Okay, two lies. 1) Camel doesn’t taste like salmon. 2) The puppies are still alive and ready for adoption if anybody is willing to go to Nuweiba to get them.

Okay, I don’t really know what “Zen” is but in my context it is being stuck in one place for ten days now and feeling, well, happy/content about it. Now it wasn’t a snap of the finger thing as that I am assuming it isn’t possible to “find the Zen” just by snapping a finger or taking a big bong hit (it might actually be that way, but as my disclaimer of a first sentence states, I don’t know what I am talking about.) My first progression started with getting to the beach area quite happily by making it there without spending a pound even though the bus station is around 10 kms away. Once I got to the beach camp, I was kind of happy about it and kind of let down. This city is much different than Dahab in two ways. Physically, it is more of a beachy place with a pretty wide expansive beach that runs around a small bay. Dahab is a pre-fab city built on a reef rather than a beach. Secondly, while Dahab is more like a modern resort, Nuweiba has a look of despair and an aire of what used to be. It has some similarities with Dahab with the Bedouin pillows and carpet roofed laze out areas, but they are quite run down and have the feeling of a ghost down. There are probably no more that 10-20 people in the whole place as I have seen.
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