Yesterday, we finally made it to one of the beaches here in Jeddah. Now, I guess some of you are thinking in such a srict Muslim country how would my wife be able to go to go to a beach? Well, here there a number of "public" and "private" beaches. We went to a private beach yesterday and because I work for the Bin Laden grup, we got a 40% discount. Once inside women are free to take off their abayas. Some don't though, and I saw at least one lady swimming with her abaya on.It was an extremely relaxing day. There are options to go skuba diving, swimming or just relaxing. One of my friends cut himself on some coral when skuba diving but was joking a small shark had taken a bite out of his knee! Strictly speaking taking photos is not allowed, however, we did manage to sneakily get a few shots off.