A little more Muscat in your life

Sunrise over Musqat

at the beach

This cool pile of small sandballs is made from a crab. It looked awesome in person

the pretty and shallow warm waters

The Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said coat of arms looks freshly polished!

 Al Alam Palace also known as my new Flat ;)

 

Darren's not so under the water, under water-anchor photo.  This was an awesome find that ended up on Darren's garden paradise patio.

 

the back side of the Qaboos' (pronounced like the last car of a link of trains) palace.  So i guess you could say it is the qaboos of the Qaboos' place!!

 

this was funny once, when I expected to see the family of stick figures...

 

That's why is made it more funny to see a second car right next to the first Camel family car portrait!

 That is ice cream shaped like a flower on top of an amazing mango smoothie (it was like 115 degrees outside)

Omani Dumpster Kitty

Wadi Jumping

in search of Wadi Habib (wadi = small natural pond usually back in valley) we found wild hiking, Omani neighbors and singing gypsies, not to mention a rad swimming hole!

the teal blues of the Gulf of Oman

Darren with his Arabian 4 wheeler

Due to recent rain, we weren't able to drive all the way to Wadi Habib since the waters leading up to it were too high.  That then allowed for our adventurous hike to the wadi.  This guy however thought he could - his wife knew better!  Some things translate in any language

Tiny tadpoles :)

The Wadi we got to swim in was the freshest, clearest water, and perfect for the 105+ degree weather

this tiny water fall packed a surprisingly strong current punch!

One of the local houses in the middle of no where.  And one of their goats!

So I say to Darren, "it's kindda creepy, how quite it all is out here.  There could be people watching us from behind the rocks like that one scene from Star Wars where those guys are hiding in the mountains and then they ambush the people"  Next thing you know, as we are walking back to the car, we hear the echoings of someone singing a song (at first is actually sounded as if a goat was dying, but we soon saw the lady walking high in the hills) She was so fast!  She ended up at the car when we got there.  I think she tried to cast a spell on us and the next thing we knew, she was up on top of the next hill!

Can you see her in Blue?  She was so high up there