Its took me nearly a month after returning to say my true and fond final farewells. The truth of the matter is I don't enjoy saying goodbyes especially to experiences that have reinvigorated my bite for life.
I came to Al-Quseir with much desire to achieve something within myself. I felt I needed time out of the rat race to rediscover the fun elements within me and to naturally feel great about myself. It was a chance meeting with Steve who was touting his wealth of expertise at an exhibition in London called vaguely something like 'One life live'. I was at the time drained from corporate politics, going to work because its important to have a career and that the definition of having a career is making a success of yourself paranelia.
I spoke for two minutes with Steve and realised instantly that this is the place I will go, Steve reckons I was quite naive at the beginning thinking I will witness a school of dolphins in an instant despite being a savvy sales person. I, actually believed in Steve, his cool responsible demeanour lends itself to giving you the impression that he knows what he is doing.
He and Claire his dear wife, stood to the testimony, The Pharoah Club truly brought together some exciting, interesting people who all enjoyed raising the awareness of the importance of keeping Al-Quseir beautiful. Egypt is a poor nation, its fruits of wealth is its history and land, a collective co-hort of support is needed to provide an infrastructure to deal with the overwhelming rubbish that dominates the landscape.
The people want to keep their place clean but how can they when they have no official structure to help them process their rubbish, if they have one, its certainly meagre, inefficient and resourceless. We need to develop this project and get all organisations involved to support this truly valuable campaign of preserving our sea, beach and towns.
I, sitting in my favourite cafe in London as an advanced diver with great stories, truly feel refreshed and revived by my diving experience and actively supporting the campaign. I am now ready to enter the world again but will keep that 'diving' sense of being with me at all costs.
This is not a goodbye to The Pharaoh Club, but more of 'See you later'
