Mike in our kitchen

:-) A quick web cam photo to prove I'm real.

Kuriat Islands, Tunisia

They are about 18 kilometers off the coast of Monastir, Tunisia.

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This is our pirate ship. I'm holding the camera about one inch above the surface of the water.

I'm in the water, behind our pirate ship.

Joshua is climbing down into the water. He was glad we didn't see any jelly fish in the water. We saw three large red jelly fish on the way there.

Something growing on a steel pole off the coast of Kuriat Island, Tunisia. I assume it is coral.

My favorite fish today. The stuff falling around him is some left over broiled fish from lunch. The workers assured me it was a waste of time to put cooked fish in the water, but it drew over 50 fish to me in minutes.

This is the clearest fish photo I took today.

Octopus and fish

These are some fish I saw feeding near a stone wall.

This is an octopus hiding against the same stone wall.

I saw him reach out and grab one of the fish swimming by him. When he saw me, he pulled his tentacles in tight, and blended in with the wall and all its green algae. He is there on the lower left hand side of the photo. His head is above the white rock. His tentacles are to the right of the white rock and around counter clockwise. I looked for something to poke him, but he was gone a minute later.

Camel Ride in Douz Tunisia

Mike on his camel

Mike and Sue after our camel ride

Mike, Sue and Joshua

Taking a shower

At last! We can take a shower in Sousse. :-) Why did I put this off? It only took 15 minutes. No, I didn't hire a plumber. After four weeks trying to get our hot water heater fixed, easy jobs are mine.

 

Our first shower head in Sousse.

We had a hand held shower head to use in the bath, but it wasn't too hand for washing Sue's beautiful long hair. Now that we have hot water, I thought it best to drill some holes in the wall and mount a real shower head. This one cost about $7.50, with all the hardware. A pretty good buy really.

Wish we could have purchased one of those fancy Amazon Plumber Shop Showerheads, but really, who needs a water filter on their showerhead? I'd bump my head on that Aquasana filtered shower system. ;-D

I had trouble getting our new showerhead to point in the correct direction. It wanted to spray the wall. Kais, the hardware store owner, told me I would need to tighten the screw that holds the shower head in position. I did as good as I could with our Phillips head screwdriver, but I couldn't get it tight enough. :-(

Then I remembered that cool pocket screwdriver someone gave us in USA, before our departure overseas. I grabbed it out of my toolbox and gave it a twirl. Yes! It gave me the leverage to get another half a turn. :-)

 

I searched Amazon.com for this handy pocket screwdriver, but I couldn't find it. Let me know if you do!

Mosque at Ramadan Sunset

Sue and I saw this beautiful sunset this evening. We were there specifically to take photos when the mosque announced that people could break their daily fast. We're told a cannon fires to announce the moment to eat. In this case it seemed to be one of those loud, bright, flashing fireworks rockets. I had my video recording on the minaret, but the explosion and flash was too far to the right.

Joshua feeding turtles

Our neighbor in our building has several of these turtles in the garden by or back door.

I debated with myself, whether I should rotate this photo correctly, with Joshua above. What do you think?