Arta Beach

Ok beach, beautiful snorkeling

We spent 2 hrs at Arta beach during a snorkeling tour. At first sight we were more than sceptical, because it does not look that beautiful due to the dark grey sand, pebbled shore and a couple of weir...

Miserable & Hellish

Trained here with my Marine unit in sweltering summer heat and humidity. Day temps were 110+ and evenings over 90°F. We slept on the beach in our skivvies on top of our 1/4" mats - tents and bags woul...

What a reef

My military unit let us have fun at the beach here one day and it was awesome. I have only dove off of a few reefs but this was the best one that I have seen. Someone I was with said that it was secon...

Interesting beach with some exceptional snorkeling nearby

Arta Plage is roughly 1 1/2 hours from the city of Djibouti - the last 10 -12 km are rough to very rough dirt and gravel track. We started off at the boats as we went searching for whale sharks - but...

Whale shark heaven

We dropped anchor here, on the Deli, for three days over Christmas a few years ago and had wonderful encounters with whale sharks every day (5 of the 6 pictures currently visible are mine - except for...