Taba Egypt – Aug 2009

..and the travels of “Duckee Tutanquacken” the Egyptian Duckee

Taba Heights - Sinai Peninsula - Egypt

Due to a last minute, unscheduled trip back to South Africa for Dee, I decided to take myself off to Taba Height in Egypt (about 200km north of Sharm El Sheik) for some sun, sea, golf and diving.

The adventures of Duckee

So whats the deal with the duck then ?

Those from my old office at AOL will hopefully recognise the redoubtable Duckee.. (…eeee), who stowed himself away in my luggage so that he might share in the adventure !

Duckee was most often observed flying across the office at someone’s head, although where he came from is a matter for scholars and historians etc.

The look on the kid who owned the camel’s face was priceless when I whipped Duckee out of the bag for our big photo shoot.

Duckee and I actually paid the dastardly little rascal 30 Egyptian pounds for the photos so it wasn’t actually all that “priceless” after all.

The camel in the pictures below (I call her Mabel, but the reason escapes me) took an instant and visceral disliking to Duckee. I can’t imagine why – I was just trying to balance him on her nose.

There was a rather close escape when I tried the “flying Duckeeeee” maneuver passt Mabel’s head, she nearly ended Duckee’s life right there and then between her horrifically nasty gnashers !

Duckee Els caddies for Al

The Taba Heights Golf Course is breathtaking, literally.

Carved out of a desert best described as a bazillion rocks crushed up into various sizes and baked at 40°c for millions of years, a step off the lush green fairways feels like the opening of a blast furnace door.

Thankfully the enigmatic Duckee offered to accompany me around one morning, insisting that in the desert the old adage of safety in numbers holds truer than ever.

His insightful golfing brain helped me to a respectable round of 84 – not too shabby for me !!

Hopefully we’ll be seeing more of Duckee in far fly places across the globe shortly, and of course with Dee there too.