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