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You can now upload your own photos to the Surfers
of Dubai website, and view
photo collections from other SODs.
Go to the SOD Photo
Gallery or
see this
forum topic for instructions
on how to get started.
Earlier photo collections not in the gallery are listed below.
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- 80 photos, 20 per page.
- stayed on lohifushi island, got deal with worldsurfaris.com -
package about A$800 for food, water, accom, boat trips
- surfed lohis (fast), chickens (fast), ninjas (slow but
fun on long boards), honkys (good longboard wave when smaller)
- lots of surfers but old fellas like us still caught a few
waves
- conditions ranged from sunny offshore to windy stormy onshore,
sometimes rain, 3-12 ft faces and one evening bigger than
double overhead, most days 4-8 ft faces.
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- 4 from dubai, 2 from muscat
- 1-2 ft swell (forecast said up to 2 m) but too much south
in it?
- faces 2-3 ft, sometimes 4 ft.
- wind SW 20 knots (offshore) and later S 20+ knots (sideshore)
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- about 10-15 surfers out, photos taken after 0900.
- best time from 0530-0700 with 4-6 ft faces and offshore,
dropped to 2-4 ft by 1000, onshore started shortly after
that.
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- dom, rob, gary and graeme
- 3-5 ft faces, clean, about 15-20 surfers out
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- small swell this week, occasionally the rock threw out
something almost head high
- much the same as 26 january
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- similar to 26 january but smaller
- error on page 1 - no link to page 2 (but it's only dom
anyway)
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- conditions were clean or slight offshore until lunchtime
- swell about 1-1.5 m, faces 4-6 ft, sometimes bigger
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- ahangama easy beach guest house
- midigama township hilten hotel and beach resort (hah!)
- marissa
- how to transport your boards
- things to do include surfing, eating, drinking...
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- boxing day surf, clean 3-5 ft faces, slight offshore
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- lohifushi island
- miserable looking conditions - barely rideable
- glad I wasn't there...
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- swell conditions about 2-3 ft giving 3-5 ft faces, very
rarely a 6 ft face
- navy forecast was showing 4-6 ft
- left Dubai about midnight Tuesday night, arrival Asilyah
about 0800 Wednesday morning
- average surf on Wednesday - onshore started about 1030
- camped on beach Wednesday night
- clean and no wind Thursday morning, surfed 0600 till about
1200 then return to Dubai
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- a selection of MS PowerPoint slides showing design progress
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- a proper 1-1.5 m swell with 6 ft faces, some sets with
8-10 ft faces
- air temperatures about 15 C (more in the sun), water temp
bloody cold compared to Dubai!
- surf shack overlooking Whale Bay costs NZ$1,000,000+
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Oman
- Asilyah May 2003 - trip to Asilyah in Oman weekend
of 14-16 May 2003 |
- conditions were about 2 ft swell (3-4 ft faces) with strong
winds
- swell forecast was showing 4-6 ft during time we were there
- stayed in Ibra Wednesday night, camped on beach Thursday
night
- strong offshore in the mornings, strong onshore in the
afternoons less windy in the evenings but unpleasant during
the day unless in water or a/c
- drove up to Ras al Hadd on Thursday afternoon
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