Here are a few more pictures from our day at the beach. We saw quite a few cormorants both on the beach and in the water. This one flew down the beach to join his friends and they all stretched out their wings to sun themselves but they were to far away to photograph. We saw them diving a little further out to sea as well.

This was a little further back from the beach. These trees are so graceful, the leaves are small and almost feathery and just blow in the wind. When they are a little taller, there is space to sit underneath the spreading branches which look rather like an umbrella.

After spending our afternoon on the beach, we drove along the beach on the "road" and came to the main part of the beach, which was the other side of a fairly high outcrop of rock. The rock is very porous and holey. There were lots of cars here and it looked like the water was deeper and no rocks. However this was a younger crowd and they had their seadoos and boards, we had seen a parasail as well. So I think we were better off on our quieter shallower beach. There is a large beach resort further along the beach. You have to pay for the privilege of sitting on the beach there, but it is well cared for with restaurants etc. There are several of these large resorts up and down the coasts but with many kilometers in between.

At the far end of the beach above there were some mangrove swamps back from the beach. There was not much water there, so a big of vegetation had grown inbetween the mangroves. These looked like the usual samphire type greenery, but this time there was some pinky coloured plants as well which are quite attractive. Well that's it for our pictures of the day out. I took various pictures during the week of the fabric souq and the shopping centre with Ramadan decorations so will put them up during the week. Can't believe that the end of our time here is fast approaching. It will be really sad to leave.