February 19, 2012
The Real Mackoy!
One man and his dog or in this case camels – for us our first sighting.
February 19, 2012
First Desert Camp
Using huge rocks, bikes, trailers, buckets and bottles filled with sand to hold down the guy ropes – even in this sheltered hollow the sand is still blowing – this sand isn’t like the beach stuff but instead a very fine dust that gets into absolutely everything.
February 18, 2012
Finally Out of Town
And into the desert – yesterday couldn’t see as far of the next building due to a sandstorm
– and battled on for a very unpleasant few kilometres before we turned back and just waited.
February 15, 2012
Roadworks
The construction just doesn’t stop –
but it’s not the Arabs building it themselves it’s the foreign workers who have come to have a tax free income.