October 12, 2008 - At Sea

We slept soundly through the night and missed the reboarding of the groups that overnighted in Cairo – they didn’t return until around 2:00am. The sea was calm and we awoke to a clear sunny day in the Red Sea. At breakfast there was a self serve caviar setup in the restaurant. We had pre booked a “Circle of Interest” excursion where we have some photography seminars with Ken Haas and then will be accompanied by him to Petra on Monday. More about that in the next post. At today’s seminar we learned very little on camera techniques and watched a multitude of offshore oil rigs and onshore refineries pass by on both sides. We docked in Aqaba, Jordan around 9:00pm. Aqaba is on the Red Sea and the Israeli city of Eilat is next to it, separated by a small strip of land. Israelis and Jordanians regularly cross the border to tour each other’s tourist sites. After dinner there was a pool deck showing of a tribute to The Three Tenors (filmed in Rome in 1990.) It was in honor of the 1 year anniversary of Pavarotti’s death. We watched some of it and went to bed early since we have to get up at 3:00am tomorrow.