This camel is only special as it is the first one I saw here, on a lot with one other, plus some goats and chickens. As soon as you get out of the city goats are a common sight, often grazing within a few yards of the highway.

Anyway, I finally met some people here and went to the beach yesterday with a couple of girls. We went to the Oman dive center, as it's a pay to enter beach, so no one stares at girls in bikinis, or anything else.

This rocky outcropping looks a lot like coral up close.

Today I drove to see Wadi Tiwi and Wadi Shabs. I knew I wouldn't be able to see very much of them because 1) They were probably overflowing during Phet and might still be full, and 2) I am driving a sedan, and eventually the road into Wadi Tiwi is only passable to 4WDs. Well, I couldn't even get close enough to look into Shabs at it's mouth since the roadways had been washed away approaching it, and the road up Tiwi needed 4WD to cross a washed out area right at the mouth.I did get to go for a little walk there, in the sweltering heat, and even just that first bit is beautiful. 

Going fishing?

The washed out road

Sand, or rock, bar where the wadi empties into the gulf

Maybe it was worth the drive after all...