The ship passed by the beautiful waters of Elounda on Crete, stopped at Cyprus, disembarked at Jaffa, over land across the desert, the Negev, finally to the Red Sea of Aqaba... Even further down to the bright shimmering lagoons of Sinai: Ras Muhammad, Sharm-el-Sheikh... Somewhere down there a Bedouin told us about the grotto close to where pharoh got all his turquoise and coral...