Fun Drive Feb 20 2004

I drove through the day before.. Took me 4 hours from the Intercontinental Hotel in Al Ain to the Jebel Ali hotel.  It was great I was wearing my Pakistani or Afghan gear. This is very comfortable in the desert and it keeps the sand out.  Just need a bit of a shake at the end and it is all out.

I saw 7 gazelles on the trip (this was near Jebel Ali) and I pulled out one stuck car.  A gulf News van that strayed off a hard track..

Then the real fun drive.  I spent 8 hours doing recovery from a bowl on stage 4.  Drove many cars out, pulled a few more out. Got stuck on the edge of a dune.  All of that was ok.  But I dropped my camera in the sand and now I am really crying. So I have no photos of the 21st of Feb which was a really amazing day out.  That was the day I climbed the steep face of Big Red for the first time...

Here are the photos before the sand incident.

Me in my Northern Alliance Gear	This is really just sand but bordering on Sandstone	Yannie and the crew ready to start static recovery	First fun Drivers	There is a gazelle in there somewhere
Fun drivers coming in the distance	My fun drive gear	Without the hat

 

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