Thursday, March 23, 2017

Report #82 Muscat, Oman March 22, 2017 Wednesday Mostly sunny & 77 degrees Part #2 Of 3 85 Pictures

Some more photos…..

 

Two ships in port

 

Green grass and many flowers

 

Nice place to take a walk

 

Gull

 

Riyam Park

 

Sea side dome

 

Will not keep the rain out

 

View of the harbor

 

A fountain at the bottom of the cliffs

 

View of the shoreline

 

Park setting

 

Seawall

 

Low tide today

 

Spy towers on the hilltops

 

Largest incense burner

 

Barriers for the seawall

 

Grass is so green this year

 

Looking for fish, sting rays, and turtles

 

The ho-ho bus stopped here for photos

 

Looking up through the dome

 

Does provide shade

 

Dry mountains

 

Sidewalk of the corniche

 

Design under the dome

 

Many tropical fish in the surf

 

Long walk back to town

 

Two of the sultan's yachts

 

Hotel

 

Very ornate sidewalk

 

The bus stop was here

 

The roundabout decorations

 

Pretty cool

 

Hotel

 

Mosque on the corniche

 

 

Sail away From Muscat, Oman

 

Good name for the port

 

Vision of the Seas – 2435 passengers

 

Beautiful mountains as the backdrop

 

Tanker offshore

 

A common mynah – we saw only two

 

Gull in flight

 

Another one

 

No one at sail away

 

A museum in the upper canyon

 

Local crow

 

Checking out our flagpole

 

Calling friends

 

locals were working on this boat all day

 

Young gull

 

Big wing span

 

Mutrah Fort above the harbor

 

Park

 

Pilot boat

 

On its way to assist someone

 

A tanker off-loading behind us

 

Twins

 

Imposing mountains

 

Neat when the sun hits them just right

 

Towers

 

Lookout

 

Wooden dhow

 

Modern tanker

 

Color of the water indicates an oil spill

 

These birds know it

 

A small night heron

 

Sitting all alone

 

Might be a juvenile

 

Might be a double-crested cormorant

 

Caspian tern

 

Busy harbor this evening

 

Tern

 

Tern

 

Tern

 

Caught a fish

 

A heron

 

May be a grey heron

 

Coming in for a landing

 

Folding the wings

 

Landed

 

Grey heron

 

Common in Europe, Africa, and Asia

 

Good fisher bird

 

Sun setting by 6:17pm….we heard the prayer call right after

 

Lights were going on

 

Hotel

 

Night time in Muscat