Red Sea, Egypt

[Edge]

Hey guys,
We've just got back from our Honeymoon on the Red Sea, so I thought I'd share a few of the fish-related pictures we took. The beach was right on a big reef, you could just wonder out on the jetty and look at the fish, or get in with them. We also went down in a Submarine to get a better look.
Some of the pics are with a phone and some are with our camera so the quality varies a little. I'll put what I think the fish are under each picture, but being a tropical fish keeper my marine knowledge is very limited, please feel free to correct and inform me.
Also, there are quite a few so sorry if it's slow
enjoy

Some Kind of Surgeon Fish?

More Surgeon Fish

Yet More Surgeon Fish

Starfish of some kind

Sgt. Major Fish

More Sgt. Major Fish

Reef Shot

Some Form of Parrot Fish?

A Small Moray I think

Lots of Fish

Even More Fish

Lion Fish

Giant Clam

Butterfly Fish of some kind?

Don't Know what this guy is

 

[GobyMaster]

Looks great!

Bet you had fun, there are loads of cool fish over there!

 

[Miss Wiggle]

brilliant pics and congrats on the wedding

 

[GobyMaster]

Oops, forgot to say that!

Congrats on the wedding!

 

[joecoral]

lovely pictures, im so jealous!
the surgeon fish in the first few pics is a Sohal Tang

 

[SJ2K]

Congratulations on getting married very nice honeymoon shots too!

 

[paul_219]

Very nice pics. Superb fish.

 

[Edge]

Thanks for the congrats, and the corrections. I think the moray pic is my favorite, there were loads of those guys. In the submarine we saw a giant moray swimming out in the open, they turned the thing around and went back because there was a amateur marine filmmaker on board who was desperate to get some good shots of a giant moray, we never found him again though.
We also saw some kind of pufferfish all puffed up, which was amazing. I'm afraid my battery had gone by this point as it was right at the end of the holiday. All this has made me seriously consider a marine tank, although a few hours of research has been enough to give me headache

 

[Helen G]

Welcome to married life!!!

Fab pics...... lion fish made me shudder, imagine that one swimming past your legs!

 

[Ace Of Spades]

OMG DUDE, YOUR TANK IS WAY OVERSTOCKED I SUGGEST YOU SORT IT OUT NOW!!!!

Lol in all seriousness, Lovley pictures. Wish I could go diving to a coral reef someday

 

[backtotropical]

Nice pics Edge. Thanks for sharing them.

I've just booked up to go to the Red Sea in October. Can't wait. I'm definitely going diving!

Oh, and the starfish is a Brittle Starfish.

Cheers

BTT

edit: I assume you were in Egypt? Which part did you go to?

 

[Edge]

Yes it was Egypt, Sharm El Sheikh on the Sinai peninsula (the bit next to Saudi Arabia with the Suez Canal). The pictures taken from the jetty were on the hotel beach where we stayed, in Sharks Bay. The underwater shots are from the submarine trip round Ras Mohammed, which is like an underwater Egyptian National Park. Basically where ever you go there are reefs just off the beaches.
Also I forgot to mention we saw a stingray at one point, along with a massive fish we thought might be a humphead wrasse. There were loads of the Picasso Triggerfish as well, those guys were awesome.
Also also, we saw jellyfish, and what looked like mudskippers hoping along the rocks, hundreds of them. I was squealing like a girl pointing at everything

 

[adamgreen240]

hi , the pics are great, i am a scuba diver myself and cant wait to go abroad to the red sea!!! Lovely pics!!

 

[Colin_T]

nice pics
next time you go take more pictures
the sohul tang is worth a couple of hundred dollars so next time sneak a couple into your suitcase.
The butterflyfish is called Chaetodon austriacus
The bottom pic is a buffalo bream, no idea what the scientific name is but they are pretty common all around the world, although most of the ones around here are temperatre so that is kind of cool that they are in the Red Sea.
It's a bit like a kid in the candy store when you go somewhere like that. Everyone around you is going "Oh pretty colours" and the aquarist is going "Oh I want that, and that, and that" and leaving drool all over the place.