During mid to late June I drove down to Salalah from
The mountains around Salalah were exceptionally green for June as a result of the heavy rains in early May http://www.omanholiday.co.uk/salalahnizwamusandam.htm and March.
In the wooded escarpment areas above Salalah hundreds of caterpillars seemed to be bungee jumping with silk threads from some trees onto the ground while the additional water seemed to have attracted a variety of Dragonfly’s.
On my journey back I drove up the east coast and overnighted in Ras al Hadd to watch the Green Turtles nest. The cyclone of early June had lifted sand higher up the main nesting beaches which resulted in the females nesting much closer to each other than I have seen previously http://www.omanholiday.co.uk/omannature.htm
Along my journey I met a convoy of 4 Chinese “Chana” vehicles who were making a trip from
Fortunately the road network was either undamaged or mostly repaired along my route and I called into Sur http://www.omanholiday.co.uk/salalahnizwamusandam.htm. Here the contrast between the ability of robust modern buildings and older (pre 1970s) ones to withstand storm damage was clear. It was good to see the Dhow yard relatively unscathed especially as a new larger Dhow is under construction. Quite apart from rebuilding the infrastructure the Oman Government is also undertaking a compensation survey to enable private companies and families to recover quickly from the impact http://www.omanobserver.com
Arriving back into
