A mosque at night, Abu Dhabi |
Minarets, Abu Dhabi |
Main city mosque and vegetable market, downtown Abu Dhabi |
The mosque in Airport Road, with the Old Fort behind. |
Looking down Khalifa Street from Airport Rd |
Downtown Abu Dhabi seen from above Hamdan Street, UAE, 1984-85 |
Looking north over the port from my office in the Tourist Club district |
Hash House Harriers jogging back to base |
Fifty runs with the Mainland Hash House Harriers! |
Mainland Hash House Harriers' beach hut |
Mainland Hash House Harriers' entry in the annual A.D. Raft Race |
The dhowyard at Bateen, Abu Dhabi in 1984 |
Shipwright working on a dhow keel, Bateen, Abu Dhabi (1998) |
Work in progress at Bateen dhow-building yard, Abu Dhabi, 1984 |
'Hotel Deluxe', Abu Dhabi |
An Indian baker in the now-vanished shantytown behind my apartment |
Arab nationals take a break for coffee |
Camel race track, Abu Dhabi |
Parking directions at a camel race track, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |
Camels with their owner at a race track outside Abu Dhabi, UAE |
Four Arab Nationals passing the time |
Desert irrigation project, Al Ain, UAE |
Liwa Oasis on the edge of the Empty Quarter |
Road to nowhere... en route to the Liwa Oasis |
A lone Bedu rides into Al Ain |
Three Baluchi labourers, the guys who did all the real work |
Chicken sellers at the Dubai Souq (market), UAE, 1984 |
Fresh-caught fish at the Dubai Souq (market), UAE, 1984 |
Traditional mudbrick windtower house in Bastakiya, Dubai (1984) |
Dubai's Bastakia quarter, now much restored |
Crewman aboard a dhow, Dubai |
Dhow crew, Dubai, UAE |
The Creek (Al Khor), Dubai |
Dhow moored alongside the Creek in Dubai |
Souq Al Markazi, Sharjah |
Souq Al Arsah, Sharjah, UAE |
Bedouin camel train, even then a very rare sight |
Jebel Hafit summit road, south of Al Ain |
Toy soldier in a store in Al Ain |
Arab village children in the Emirates |
Gulf Arab boys at the gate of the family home, Wadi Siji, Sharjah |
Ad Door, believed to be the ruins of an outpost built by the armies of Alexander the Great |
Jazirat Al Hamra, a ruined town outside Ras Al Khaimah |
Jazirat Al Hamra, Ras Al Khaimah |
A traditional Arab fort, still manned, on the Indian Ocean coast |
Mosque in an inland village somewhere in the Northern Emirates |
An oasis at Masfut, below the Hajjar |
Date palms flourishing in an oasis |
A rare waterfall pool, Wadi Agram |
All aboard with the Emirates Natural History Group - one of my first opportunities |
Approaching the Ruus Al Jibaal, north of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE |
Exploring the Hajar Mountains around Hatta, in a British Embassy Land Rover |
Camping in the Hajar Mountains |
Desert graves in the Hajar Mountains |
Sunset over the Hajar Mountains |
The ruined fort at Hayl, near the Indian Ocean coast |
Mudbrick fort at Hayl, near the Indian Ocean coast |
Picnic outside the Indian Ocean town of Dibba |
Indian Ocean beach at Badiyah, Fujairah, UAE |