Single day weekend! Bummer!
Decided we would do another road trip….not to a new destination, but over to the east coast again! Wanted to show Mum and Steve the Friday market and the mountainous terrain…..so much more barren, rugged and wild than the sky scrapers of Dubai.
Plus I just had to get another Coconut!!! They were yummy! I think CJD might be staring to like coconut too!....for some reason she took both mine and mum's coconut!!!

Note the photo of the wadi....like a canyon cut in the landscape! the small 4x4 giving some sense of scale!
We also had a mission to go to the Sandy Hotel and resort. A day of sunbathing next to the Gulf of Oman (different to the waters of the Persian Gulf off the west of the Arabian peninsular), and to go Snorkeling at Snoopy Island!
It is off the coast of Khor Fakken and is approx 100m from the shore. It is called snoopy island because it is supposed to look like snoopy asleep on his back???!!!
Once on the beach (phew it was hot and the sand felt like it was burning your feet!) we found a spot to leave mum in the shade and hired our snorkeling gear! Flippers mask and snorkel. Thought it sensible to whack the factor 40 on the old back, really didn’t need to sunburn our backs. The water was a bit pretty cool to start with but soon felt great. It didn’t take long to swim out to the island, although on the way out there I got stung by something on my knee…..felt like stinging nettles and really did sting….but I carried on because afterall it didn’t take my leg off! WOW the fish were amazing…so colourful!! Steve had bought a couple of underwater cameras out for us, so I was happily snapping all the fish that we saw. Somehow CJD has escaped the lens!!! (return visit will happen and i will get a photo of her snorkelling!)
I THEN started seeing red orange string like things in the water….HMMMM wonder if that what was the stinger!!?? My knee by this point was red and had white raised bumps like nettle stings…CJD went in and we followed about 20mins later…..it transpired that both Steve and CJD had got stung! Grrrrrrrrr
Spent a few hours in the sun and Steve and I went back out to finish the camera film.
When we had had out fix of the beach we popped down to the Oldest Mosque in the UAE and then back to the Al Aqah Beach Resort for afternoon tea. Totally wrecked, we drove back to Dubai in the dark with our dodgey car!!! Need to get the headlamp fixed!!!!!! Back to work Saturday…………….

Did a bit of research back on the internet and found out that they are strings of baby jellyfish all stuck together! safety in numbers huh! i kept my eye out for them in strings and individual, but didnt see any to photograph......