We stayed at Danat Al-Khaleej Hotel a 3 star hotel just past the ferry dock. We
had supper there for two evening and it was very good, we ordered Indian food.
They must have some electrical problems, for every night when we were eating
the power was going on and off. Thursday morning we were up early and off to
explore the island. We stopped at many beautiful beaches, some with white sand.
They all had coral and such beautiful shells, we picked buckets of them. We
found a dead turtle, very large, about a meter long that had been killed for
its meat. Since we had a 4x4 we were
able to go off road and explore areas a car couldn’t go. We saw many old shells probably fossils in
the wadi (dry river) beds and in the sand dunes. We climbed a hilly mound and
found flakes where some ancient person had been chipping on red chert to make
arrow/spear heads. On the way down we saw an old graveyard. They don’t use
large tombstones, just some rocks standing upright. The graves are covered with
mounds of stones. We did a circuit
around the island. All over the island
there are many camels and goats foraging without fences. Fences are a rarity;
instead every home is surrounded by a brick wall.
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| camels by the road |
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| blue sponge |
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| This is a dhow, a traditional Omani fishing boat |
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| All these mounds were made by burrowing crabs |
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| Old dhow |
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| Roadside camels |
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| Old, old shells |
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| desert vegetation |
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| Camel pruning the trees |
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| old Omani graveyard |
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| white beach |
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| Where we stayed |
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| Foraging camel, in garbage, on street, in town. |
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| Driving in a wadi |
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| Burrowing crab |
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| Large turtle |
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| white beach Misirah |
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| Dhow |
