Posts Tagged ‘camel’

Lord of the Shrimps

Lord of the Shrimps

(Underwater photo of a yellow moray eel surrounded by several types of shrimp.) I got down near the sandy bottom to approach the coral head, then looked up into a crevice in the rock. Inside, a yellow moray eel was watching me. The many different types of shrimp around seemed to have eyes only for the eel.


Movin’ On…

Movin' On...

Touring Egypt 35: It is time to climb on our camel and saunter into the Egyptian sunset. Here’s a camel; there’s the sunset … See you soon in a new place! (Photos: Camel for tourist rides at Saqqara; Camel rider waving; Sunset view of Cairo across the Nile River.)


Patience

Patience

Saqqara, near Giza and Cairo, Egypt Click here to share this image.Touring Egypt 21: Police of the Tourist and Antiquities service patrol the vast, wide-open spaces around the pyramids at Giza and nearby Saqqara on camels. Tourists frequently see the camel-mounted police around the pyramids and temples. (Of course, tourists can also get “up close […]


Coming Through!

Coming Through!

The Red Sea, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. Touring Egypt 6: Whoa! What the heck was that!?!? I and my ubiquitous camera are cruising with my group at about 60 feet on a boat dive* at Woodhouse Reef in the Straits of Tiran (the Red Sea). […]


The Classic View

The Classic View

Giza, Egypt Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. Touring Egypt, number 3: Here is the classic view that I just had to share. I know, I know — everybody has done this one. Still, I love this photo — it is … well, “emblematic.” Here is the quintessential Egypt tourist […]