This is what you get more than a thousand kilometres of desert away from Muscat: an unknown beach a couple of turns away from the windiest spot in Oman, with enough residual energy to part a Pyrenean Shepherd’s hair. I’d just left Ras Nuss, where it was blowing the crests clean off the waves, and stopped somewhere before the wadi where I had bumped into Somali illegals in October 2005. Now, with Baluchi soldiers entrenched ahead and a new road being slapped against the edge of a leopard sanctuary, there is nothing more dangerous left here except Sibelle, the wind, and me.
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Sibelle, windblown
02 Jul
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Did she like the wind? My friend’s doggie hates it so. She always makes sure to face the direction of the wind so that all her fur blows straight back – which is incidentally what I do as well!
3 different kinds of ripples … water, sand and fur. Lovely!
What a beautiful picture of mine…. I was younger and at that time up for big things following my nose in the wind….
Sibelle, you’ll always be young, and free.
Sibelle, beautiful Sibelle… How lovely, how gorgeous! And how unusual for a doggie to be walking along the beach, just the little paws in the water without splashing around… A lady to have a conversation with. And a suitable entourage for the artist and the intellectual.
Lucky Berger des Pyrenees & lucky you!
All these nice comments, thank you for the compliments. It was a fantastic trip and the beach was just like a dream. I remember the Pakistani soldiers as well, nice guys very casually dressed and happy to see me, eh us. Yes, I was not alone, I was with my best friend and partner. At that time he was still very young, some months and inexperienced but up for big things especially in water. It would be nice to present him. I am sure the photographer who accompanied us has a nice picture too. I know he always complains that my friend is to dark and therefore a difficult contrast in the Omani environment. However I am sure he has a nice image of my friend. He is not a berger des Pyrénées but looks very nice too. I feel now like a celebrity (at least a local one).