james_fish
Chuck, Leader Of Ze People.
I've just returned from a weeks holiday in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
The point of the trip was mostly to do with the Red Sea, snorkelling and scuba diving.
Having done some snorkelling and diving before, most notably on the Great Barrier Reef I was well in to it and looking forward to seeing what the Red Sea had to offer.
First time in the water
...Absolutely stunning.
It was absolutely filled with beautiful fish, corals and other things alike.
Just a short list of fish I saw:
Blackspotted Grunt, Yellowsaddle Goatfish, Yellowfin Goatfish, Forsskal Goatfish, Masked Pufferfish, Blackspotted Pufferfish, Pearl Toby, Klunzingers Wrasse, Bird Wrasse, Moon Wrasse, Cleaner Wrasse, Bigeye Emporter, Napolean Fish, Bicolor Parrot Fish, Buttlehead Parrot Fish, Rusty Parrot Fish, Red Sea Anemone Fish, Scissortail Sergeant, Sergeant Major, Banded Dascyllus, Half and Half Chromis, Common Lizard Fish, Sulphur Damsel Fish, Red Sea BannerFish, Crown Butterfly Fish, Masked Butterfly Fish, Lined Butterfly Fish, Royal Angelfish, Emporer Angel Fish, LionFish, Blue Spotted Stingray, Squid, Blue Sailfin Tang, Giant Trevally, Black Surgeon Fish, Orangepsine Unicorn Fish, Coral Grouper, Lunar Fusiliar, Suez Fusilier, Blue Triggerfish, Giant Triggerfish, Orangestriped Triggerfish, Arabian PicassoFish, Pipefish, Scribbled File Fish and many many more.
The things that stood out the most from the above list were:
Lionfish: Not uncommon, saw at least one every jump gorgeous fish as we all know, very docile. Great to see them in the wild!
Blue Spotted Stingray: Again, not uncommon but a great site. Relitively small, when you see them close the blue spots show fantastically.
Napolean Fish: HUGE FISH, absolutely huge. It was knocking on for about 4.5/5 feet. Only saw one, fanstastic.
Scribbled FileFish: Only saw one, incredible fish packs some huge teeth!
Blackspotted Pufferfish: Saw two, in the evening. When compared to the masked Puffers these things are massive!
Parrotfish: Very common but beautiful nonetheless.
Red sea Anemone fish: To see Clown Fish in the wild was pretty special.
Giant Triggerfish: Huge and beautiful!
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All in all a great trip, which is as good in not better than the GBR of Australia. I recommend it highly, Next time i'm going i'm taking an underwater camera without a doubt!
Makes me want to set a salty up
Sorry to bore you all
James.
The point of the trip was mostly to do with the Red Sea, snorkelling and scuba diving.
Having done some snorkelling and diving before, most notably on the Great Barrier Reef I was well in to it and looking forward to seeing what the Red Sea had to offer.
First time in the water
...Absolutely stunning.
It was absolutely filled with beautiful fish, corals and other things alike.
Just a short list of fish I saw:
Blackspotted Grunt, Yellowsaddle Goatfish, Yellowfin Goatfish, Forsskal Goatfish, Masked Pufferfish, Blackspotted Pufferfish, Pearl Toby, Klunzingers Wrasse, Bird Wrasse, Moon Wrasse, Cleaner Wrasse, Bigeye Emporter, Napolean Fish, Bicolor Parrot Fish, Buttlehead Parrot Fish, Rusty Parrot Fish, Red Sea Anemone Fish, Scissortail Sergeant, Sergeant Major, Banded Dascyllus, Half and Half Chromis, Common Lizard Fish, Sulphur Damsel Fish, Red Sea BannerFish, Crown Butterfly Fish, Masked Butterfly Fish, Lined Butterfly Fish, Royal Angelfish, Emporer Angel Fish, LionFish, Blue Spotted Stingray, Squid, Blue Sailfin Tang, Giant Trevally, Black Surgeon Fish, Orangepsine Unicorn Fish, Coral Grouper, Lunar Fusiliar, Suez Fusilier, Blue Triggerfish, Giant Triggerfish, Orangestriped Triggerfish, Arabian PicassoFish, Pipefish, Scribbled File Fish and many many more.
The things that stood out the most from the above list were:
Lionfish: Not uncommon, saw at least one every jump gorgeous fish as we all know, very docile. Great to see them in the wild!
Blue Spotted Stingray: Again, not uncommon but a great site. Relitively small, when you see them close the blue spots show fantastically.
Napolean Fish: HUGE FISH, absolutely huge. It was knocking on for about 4.5/5 feet. Only saw one, fanstastic.
Scribbled FileFish: Only saw one, incredible fish packs some huge teeth!
Blackspotted Pufferfish: Saw two, in the evening. When compared to the masked Puffers these things are massive!
Parrotfish: Very common but beautiful nonetheless.
Red sea Anemone fish: To see Clown Fish in the wild was pretty special.
Giant Triggerfish: Huge and beautiful!
...
All in all a great trip, which is as good in not better than the GBR of Australia. I recommend it highly, Next time i'm going i'm taking an underwater camera without a doubt!
Makes me want to set a salty up
Sorry to bore you all
James.
Although I never swam out too far I did get to see some of the fish and they were lovely, shame the corals that are close to the shoreline were badly dying off or dead though 
