Dennis Bakhuis

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🇪🇬 House reef, Happy Life Village

Dahab, South Sinai, Egypt

The reef in front of the hotel — five dives across two trips three years apart, which is what a house reef is for.

Dives here
5
Deepest
29.8 m
Water
salt
First · last
2005 · 2008

Revision 2 · changed 18 Oct 2026

History
  1. r2 18 Oct 2026 Log titles removed from the aliases · Dennis Bakhuis
  2. r1 10 Oct 2026 Imported from the personal log · Dennis Bakhuis

Site data © divelog-sites contributors (ODbL), descriptions and maps CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf

1 map

Reef flatReef flatSandSeagrassPier↓15 m↓25 mDrop-off 25–55 mHappy Life beach / jetty↓0 mGolden Blocks entry↓0 mCoral block↓7 mCoral block↓7 mCoral block↓7 mGolden Block↓25 mGolden Block↓25 mGorgonians↓18 mCrack↓25 mN20 m
  • Entry / exit
  • Point of interest
  • Pinnacle / rock
  • Shoreline
  • Depth contour
  • Wall / drop-off
  • Shallows
  • Sand
  • Other area
  • Depth
Site map · 7 objects · max 25 m

The house reef in front of Happy Life Village, south of Dahab (the site point is the hotel itself, about 450 m inland). Entry from the hotel beach by the jetty (OpenStreetMap); in front of it the reef flat, a sand slope with coral blocks and the drop-off from 25 to 55 m. The reef is the same stretch as Golden Blocks, whose entry is at the north-east end of the hotel beach (Mashraba is 5 km north in Dahab town); positions are approximate. No route is drawn.

Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf

The Happy Life Village sits on the coast about 5 km south of Mashraba, and its beach is the entry for Golden Blocks. Like every hotel on that coast it has a piece of reef in front of it. You walk out of the room in your kit, in over the reef flat, and the wall is there.

Five dives here, spread across the 2005 and 2008 Dahab trips, from 2 m to 29.8 m — the range tells you what it was used for: check dives, shakedowns after a gear change, an easy last dive before flying, and at least one that went properly down the wall.

Dived here with

Kim Tim

Nearby sites

5 dives at House reef, Happy Life Village

Dives per year

  1. 12 Aug 2008 with Kim night date12 Aug 2008 depth16.2 m time62 min water—
  2. 10 Aug 2008 with Kim night date10 Aug 2008 depth13.7 m time64 min water—
  3. 10 Aug 2008 with Kim drift date10 Aug 2008 depth21.8 m time58 min water—
  4. 6 Aug 2008 with Kim training date6 Aug 2008 depth29.8 m time48 min water—
  5. 4 Aug 2005 with Tim night date4 Aug 2005 depth16 m time48 min water—

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)