Wednesday, April 05, 2006
AOWD
Just been up to the Mussandam (on the tip of Arabia in the Straits of Hormouz) for the past 4 days. Stayed at the Golden Tulip on the edge of cliffs looking over to Iran.
Drove up on Saturday in 5 hours with only half an hour at the border, where Jem realised his life long ambition of eating a ham sandwich in the no-man's land between 2 arabic nations.
The main aim of the trip was for Stephen and Lisa to take their PADI advanced diver qualification which went off with out too much drama, though it turns out that Stephen has a weird concept of navigating a triangle!
Annette and Rachel had grand plans for some hard core sun batnhing and book reading by the pool but, unfortunatley the weather had other plans with a cold front moving over and forcing down temperatures to a cardigan wearing 27C (felt like 20 with the wind chill). Not to be thwarted they moved activities to a local arabic coffee shop (not sun bathing obv.). PS Water was even colder! Thinking of getting a thermal dry suit!
Highlight for Stephen - out on the dive boat with botle nose dolphins pulling tricks less then a metre away (is that a smile or a smirk?).
Highlight for Annette - not looking at microfossils.
Drove up on Saturday in 5 hours with only half an hour at the border, where Jem realised his life long ambition of eating a ham sandwich in the no-man's land between 2 arabic nations.
The main aim of the trip was for Stephen and Lisa to take their PADI advanced diver qualification which went off with out too much drama, though it turns out that Stephen has a weird concept of navigating a triangle!
Annette and Rachel had grand plans for some hard core sun batnhing and book reading by the pool but, unfortunatley the weather had other plans with a cold front moving over and forcing down temperatures to a cardigan wearing 27C (felt like 20 with the wind chill). Not to be thwarted they moved activities to a local arabic coffee shop (not sun bathing obv.). PS Water was even colder! Thinking of getting a thermal dry suit!
Highlight for Stephen - out on the dive boat with botle nose dolphins pulling tricks less then a metre away (is that a smile or a smirk?).
Highlight for Annette - not looking at microfossils.
# posted by Stephen : 9:54 am
