Perhaps we should stay out of the midday heat....

This self-photo preceeded the octopus sighting (whose red color I'm convinced meant that it was fiery mad about us lurking over its quivering mass), so it can't be blamed on the motion of the sea or the after effects of seeing multicolored creatures swimming all around us. Perhaps it could have been our four days of workshops or our excitement to be eating dinner at the normal Saudi time (11pm).

We eventually managed to pull it together for at least the semblance of a decent photo.