Sharm El Sheikh, South Sinai, Egypt
The name Ras Katy comes from a woman who used to sunbathe on the beach here: the boat skippers would wave to her and began calling the site by her name. It is the southernmost of the local Sharm El Sheikh sites and, besides divers, it is also popular with snorkelers.
There is a sheltered sandy area with many pairs of goby and shrimp. Soft and hard corals and gorgonians cover the formations, which gather many fish, such as stingrays, crocodilefish, lionfish, scorpionfish and fusiliers. Schools of fusiliers, clown fish and pipe fish also appear, and the hard coral is in good condition, especially the fire coral. At the southern corner groups of red sea banner fish and red tooth triggers gather together, and there is a big fan coral with glass fish. The site also has sharks resting in a "shark pool", many different rays, nudibranchs, shrimps, moray eels and triggerfish.
In the Sharm El Sheikh area diving usually goes on all year round, and the water usually ranges between 22 and 28 °C.
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