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Eilat underwater observatory. Well, underwater.
During these few days I found that swimming to the sea before 8AM pays off. Even on Friday, I was the first guy in the sea.
That white thing on the horizon is the famous underwater observatory.
There are many aquariums with sea turtles, sharks, rays, exotic fish, a poor octopus, etc there. The main attraction however are not the aquariums but a big underwater observatory. Their web site states that it is the oldest underwater onbservatory, and the windows are submerged to 6 meters. When I was taking the stairs down I had a feeling that the real depth is just 3 meters.
The views there are very good.
So I obviously wondered how it would look from outside? The only way to find out is to get there by the sea. One has to buy a pass to the nature reserve beach and swim 500 meters from there, or swim a kilometer from a public beach. I have chosen a cheaper option :)
That is how it looks from the sea:
Nothing too special as a coral, but could be a nice wreck :) When diving there, I felt like the depth was only about 3-4 meters.
Now I see how the fish feels like when it is being watched and photographed through the windows:
That lady with a white smartphone must have taken couple of pictures of me and fish.
The corals around are well nurtured.
The bubbles on the pictures above are coming from the divers, who are taking care of the reef.
And yes, these guys must release the octopus or at least get him a bigger cage!!!
That white thing on the horizon is the famous underwater observatory.
There are many aquariums with sea turtles, sharks, rays, exotic fish, a poor octopus, etc there. The main attraction however are not the aquariums but a big underwater observatory. Their web site states that it is the oldest underwater onbservatory, and the windows are submerged to 6 meters. When I was taking the stairs down I had a feeling that the real depth is just 3 meters.
The views there are very good.
So I obviously wondered how it would look from outside? The only way to find out is to get there by the sea. One has to buy a pass to the nature reserve beach and swim 500 meters from there, or swim a kilometer from a public beach. I have chosen a cheaper option :)
That is how it looks from the sea:
Nothing too special as a coral, but could be a nice wreck :) When diving there, I felt like the depth was only about 3-4 meters.
Now I see how the fish feels like when it is being watched and photographed through the windows:
That lady with a white smartphone must have taken couple of pictures of me and fish.
The corals around are well nurtured.
The bubbles on the pictures above are coming from the divers, who are taking care of the reef.
And yes, these guys must release the octopus or at least get him a bigger cage!!!