Camping in Dibba

Last weekend we went camping with friends from school on the East coast of the UAE just near Dibba. We arrived late on Friday afternoon with our brand new tent, only to find that three of the tent posts were broken, and the tent didn't come with tent pegs. (Note to self, check any purchases like this first before heading out to use them). Luckily the boys were able to be good

boy scouts and make do with the tent poles and one of the other familys had spare tent pegs.

The kids were having a wonderful time playing in the sand. We camped right on the beach; literally, apparently about an hour after we went to bed on wave missed our tent by centimetres (another note to self: when camping on the beach check the paper for high tides first)

The kids were up at the crack of dawn the next morning. No need for alarm clocks in our family.

The next day the kids played in the sand and helped one of the other families unbog their car. The kids were so cute trying to help, but in the end a nice English gentleman had to give us a

hand by towing the car out.

After packing up we all headed to the Sandy Beach Hotel next door where we were able to use their facilities, pool, showers etc and snorkel out to Snoopy Rock, where Peter and I were able to see numerous colourful tropical fish, in the meantime our lovely friends kept our five amused on the beach.

For a first camping experience as a family it was great fun, and we will definately try it again. We will first get another tent, the one we bought was supposed to sleep 8, (8 very very small adults maybe) so we think we will make this one our kids tent and get ourselves a more luxurious adult size tent. Our next plan is to go camping in the desert and really be away from the city and lots of people.

On our way home, just near the Green Community roundabout we experienced the worst sandstorm we have seen to date. In this photo we are four cars back from the traffic lights, and we couldn't see a thing. It was pretty intimidating, luckily we were not on the beach in our little tent when it hit.