dear all
last night we returned from one week holiday at Obaied beach near Marsa
matruh.
A wonderful place, worth all the drive! Chrystal clear water, not too
many people, fresh air, all you can ask for!
And even carettas with nice little donkeys for the kids to ride in the
evenings (or on the way back from shopping - much better than a stinky cab!)
BUT ... so much garbage on the beach, on the street in front of our
chalet, on the way to the little super market ....
I was wondering, can we maybe organize a clean up also on such far away
places?
Make it an outing and then clean?
Are there any safararists up there/ out there?
Is that place actually registered as a protected area?
My husband went fishing one morning to Aguiba cliffs and said it was
even more dirty there.
All plastic bags and empty water bottles and chipsy bags ... maybe a
case to ask the involved companies for support?
How to convince the people vacationing there that they should keep the
beach clean?
One thing I noticed there are no garbage bins anywhere. Household
garbage is picked up in the mornings, somehow, by kind of Zabaleen, but
they do not alway get everything and what is left just floats around in
the air (reaching pretty far with all that wind).
This is just a brainstorming. I had time to think during the 10 minutes
or so we spent cleaning our patch of beach, collecting what the sea had
brought since our last vist to the shore.
I'm travelling from 16 to 31 August to Canada, and will be ready for
more planning in September. To make sure I read your answers, please
copy to my mail gamousa(at)link.net Thank you!
all the best, and the usual sunshine from Heliopolis
Uli
Re: [SaharaSafaris] holidays in MArsa MAtruh
From: mahmoud_khafagy@yahoo.co.ukDate: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 23:33:25 +0100 (BST)
I used to go to Obaied, when I was a kid as we had a chalet there. It's wondeful, I heard from my parents that 20 years ago there was a natural rocky barrier inside the water but was very far, so the sea was very quiet and easy to swim till the barrier, but now the sea level became higher so u can't see it. A long time ago very few people used to go there, and there was no public or private beaches like nowadays, everyone had a chalet there swims in the beach infront of him, and there was no such view of hundreds of people on the beach. But now, a lot of people went there and touristic villages were built, and so it became like Alex.
Uli in Kairo wrote: dear all
last night we returned from one week holiday at Obaied beach near Marsa
matruh.
A wonderful place, worth all the drive! Chrystal clear water, not too
many people, fresh air, all you can ask for!
And even carettas with nice little donkeys for the kids to ride in the
evenings (or on the way back from shopping - much better than a stinky cab!)
BUT ... so much garbage on the beach, on the street in front of our
chalet, on the way to the little super market ....
I was wondering, can we maybe organize a clean up also on such far away
places?
Make it an outing and then clean?
Are there any safararists up there/ out there?
Is that place actually registered as a protected area?
My husband went fishing one morning to Aguiba cliffs and said it was
even more dirty there.
All plastic bags and empty water bottles and chipsy bags ... maybe a
case to ask the involved companies for support?
How to convince the people vacationing there that they should keep the
beach clean?
One thing I noticed there are no garbage bins anywhere. Household
garbage is picked up in the mornings, somehow, by kind of Zabaleen, but
they do not alway get everything and what is left just floats around in
the air (reaching pretty far with all that wind).
This is just a brainstorming. I had time to think during the 10 minutes
or so we spent cleaning our patch of beach, collecting what the sea had
brought since our last vist to the shore.
I'm travelling from 16 to 31 August to Canada, and will be ready for
more planning in September. To make sure I read your answers, please
copy to my mail gamousa(at)link.net Thank you!
all the best, and the usual sunshine from Heliopolis
Uli
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I used to go to Obaied, when I was a kid as we had a chalet there. It's wondeful, I heard from my parents that 20 years ago there was a natural rocky barrier inside the water but was very far, so the sea was very quiet and easy to swim till the barrier, but now the sea level became higher so u can't see it. A long time ago very few people used to go there, and there was no public or private beaches like nowadays, everyone had a chalet there swims in the beach infront of him, and there was no such view of hundreds of people on the beach. But now, a lot of people went there and touristic villages were built, and so it became like Alex.
Uli in Kairo <gamousa@gmx.net> wrote:
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