Our first 4wheel driving experience.

Well this morning Jen Rich Stacy and I took off for s road trip. We just wanted to get out of the city. So we went to the airport and just carried on… I had my GPS so we could go anywhere. I had loaded a couple of caches to get along the way.

This was our first time out, so where not sure of what to expect. We started out and the first thing that I noticed was that the speed limit was 120km. Our car, I believe is only a 4 speed auto, so it really revved when we sat at 120km. So we were nice and cruised at 110. There were still cars flying passed us at insane speeds. There were also a good number of speed cameras. There didn’t worry the Qatari’s though. What is 300 Qatari.

We drove for about 15 minutes and came to a little town. I knew that there was a cache there next to the beach. So it would have been rude not to do it. It was right by the sea and the water looked really nice, like NZ. It was really shallow like Eastern Beach but with no drop off. There were kids standing up about 200m out and it was only up to their waist’s. After finding this cache rather quickly we carried on. We then went as far as we could until this gate wouldn’t let us go any further. (We will need to ask about this one because there is an amazing hotel further down there somewhere). On the way home we collected 3 other caches that were about 3 km off road. No cactus or camels though. We went through the salt planes and some rather rocky terrain. One was right next to what we think was a coast guard station. The water was really clear. We didn’t swim because it was about the same temp as a warm swimming pool.

Then we made out way back being tourists taking lots of photos. We even saw a lot of dowels or however you spell it. (They are old fishing boats all made of wood). We made it home safely with out any tickets and with nothing broken, that we know of.

I am sitting at the carwash place at the moment writing this entry on the blog. They are hand cleaning the inside and outside of our car now for about $7 NZ. Why not. What a good way to end the day. No dad I didn’t take the car in the seawater.