Red Sea miscellaneous

1. It will cost the Amsterdam $215,000 to transit the Suez Canal on Saturday.
2. I am now as close as I am likely ever to be to Mecca, which is roughly 100 miles to the east.
3. The Red Sea is not red. It is blue, just like all the other waters through which we have sailed. Apparently, at one point, Egypt was once called the land of red sands, and this body of water was associated with that.