Our passage through the Suez Canal was pretty interesting and took 7 hours. It was of course extremely hot. We attempted several times to sit out on our balcony and go up on deck but the flies were unbelievable which made it really unpleasant. If we thought Australia was bad for flies this was really horrendous. Some residents left their door out to the balcony open and ended up with flies indoors which were almost impossible to kill with fly spray.
We travelled through the Canal in a convoy of nine ships, with ours being in the lead and the only cruise ship. All the others were freight.
At some of the small towns along the way there would be ferries crossing from one side to the other packed with people and cars.
A welcome sign on the Sinai Desert side of the canal.
There were sporadic makeshift shelters along the way, probably for workmen, although there never seemed to be much action talking place. Usually people were curious but friendly by waving back.
We passed numerous small fishing boats using drag nets. There never seemed to be many fish in the nets when we saw a few hauling them in and what they did catch looked pretty tiny.
Towards the Gulf of Suez end we noticed a lot more trucks with soldiers patrolling the area.
There was also plenty of evidence of earlier trouble times.
Every 250 metres there were armed security towers.
No sign of the guards doing their job here. We think they must have gone to sleep.
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