More sea, sand and... Oh, sand.
Lots of fossils, remains of yesterday's rain and some ridiculously soft white stuff which crumbled like semi-dry paste when you touched it. How can this stuff have stood for so long?
From here we drove a couple of miles to a film set where a Qatari series had been made. Nobody found out anything about what or when the series was but it was quite an impressive set. A complete courtyarded house of the type I imagine would accommodate a few families. Or maybe it's more of a fortress-village. Hard to say. It would be quite habitable as all rooms and roofs are complete. Outside, a number of well-like structures (or maybe fire pits) stood around and an ostrich trotted about.
This is a good example of early air-conditioning - the wind tower. The tower opens straight into the room below so that any breeze there might be will flow into the room. Not much else to say really.
Beyond the film-set we drove down into an area surrounded by cliffs where little dwellings (also part of the set) were built against the cliff walls and on unlikely lumps of rock. Must keep an eye out for a re-run of this show!
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