The Rock

The Rock looks like a simple mound in the middle of the bay, but it is completely carpeted with magnificent anemones, with thousands of anemonefish. Photographers often spend several dives there chasing the perfect shot. A giant moray lives at the site, and large rocks with an overhang often hide big groupers. There are also schools of barracuda, black snapper, fusiliers and unicornfish, and eagle rays may pass by. In the waters around the port of El Quseir there is a good chance of meeting a pod of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins and, at times, the dugong that travels with them, while Mangrove Whiptail rays and leopard rays are rarer visitors to the region.