The Dean

Suggest a place (in the UAE) where some quite young and not particularly strong swimmers can gently float around and see some pretty-coloured fishy-wishy, please........?

Nowhere that's got strong tides............

Thanks in advance.

Autonomy

Snoppy Rock is popular and you can stay very cheaply at the Sandy Beach bungalows - you can do your own BBQ - we go quite a lot.

The snorkelling is pretty good - however - at high tide you will need to swim out about 50m to the rock. The water can get quite deep - though it is generally very very calm.

I've seen turtles quite often there, who lot of fishy-wishys but also several 6 ft + black tip reef sharks up close...

Musandam is also very good - you need to hire a dhow which is good fun and you'll see dolphins on the way...

The Dean

Is Musandam in Oman?

Sandboy

not much at Snoopy these days though is there ? red algae killed all the coral and the fish pissed off

shark once scared the living daylights out of me there


still my favourite weekend away mind, fill the car with beer and meat and off you go, the accommodation is shit but you're only in it a few hous and in a coma anyway

and you can do flaming arseholes along the beach

kittycat1

what prey tell is a flaming arsehole? The mind boggles!

Sandboy

take 3-4 drunk people, naked from the waist

each gets a length of toilet roll, kitchen roll for the brave. You must stick one end up yer hoop

soak paper in bbq lighter fluid

set fire to paper and whoever runs the furthest without getting burned is the winner

kittycat1

oo classy!

Think I might just give that a miss!

MAV_DXB

Yes it is.

I went to Musandam at the weekend, did the dhow cruise. They stopped twice for snorkelling, clear water and plenty of fish. Also saw some dolphins, when they spotted them they cruised on over, then sped up to top speed which encouraged the dolphins to swin along side the boat.

In total it took 4 hours to get there (including customs and a stop for snacks). You have to pay 50dhs to enter Oman, this time of year there's not that many people crossing the border (where we did -Tibat), so customs was a fairly quick process.

Autonomy

It has been depleted for sure - but still enjoyable. I love Sandy Beach so tacky, but the BBQ & beers make it great...

Next time I see four pissed up people on the beach with flaming paper flapping out of there arse holes I'll be sure to come over and say Hi....

Alexa

Now the mind boggles even more...

MAV_DXB

Here are a few pics.

Sandboy

please do, I reckon my weekends at Snoopy might just be be my fondest memories of UAE

*except I was at the JAL the day newcastle were relegated

kittycat1

Great pics MAV, Im thinking a trip to Snoopy island is required- maybe when its a bit cooler though!

Madam Medusa

inselaffen will know for sure whether it was any good or not, but i know he used to go diving in fujeirah and mrs inselaffen went snorkelling there...

MM, xx