Mussafah Exploration Trip 10-5-2008

DiVeR · Post by **DiVeR** » Sat May 10, 2008 4:13 pm

Mac, Mike & myself met @ 12 PM in ADNOC Mussafah & headed towards Mussafah for a 3 hours' drive 8)

Well

Nothing much to say. Mussafah is all gone

From the outside, there is no sign of any heavy works in our old play area except for one Bulldozer (not Saeid

). HOWEVER, when we hit the dunes we were shocked

No single dune exists anymore in Mussafah, the biggest dune is 3 meters high, the play area became only 100 meters wide & the route that we used to cover in 30 minutes before, we covered today in 5 minutes

We went all the way to the shooting range which is 7 KMs away from the play area, on the way there are couply of nice spots but they are very narrow & the sand is extremely soft that Newbies will not survive in

I enjoyed the company of Mac & Mike

But was sad to see Mussafah like this. I believe the new members will not know what i mean :crying:

CHEERS

Mac · Post by **Mac** » Sat May 10, 2008 4:15 pm

Thanks for the trip Karim & Mike, as always great company, shame about the dunes though, only about 200 metres wide now and to think we used to split into different groups in this area. Still it was worth the effort.

Desert Ghost · Post by **Desert Ghost** » Sat May 10, 2008 4:43 pm

forget it guys...no more Musaffah

Jax · Post by **Jax** » Sat May 10, 2008 6:36 pm

That is so sad

I have fond memories of my first trips there, getting stuck in my Liberty and finding out there were no tow-hooks on my car, our Iftar BBQ's during Ramadan .... very sad news...

What are they building there to take up so much desert?

iguana · Post by **iguana** » Sat May 10, 2008 7:42 pm

Thanks for the effort guys .. Too bad that Mussafah is finished .. I loved this area and had lots of memories there .. But what can we do

mike0967 · Post by **mike0967** » Sat May 10, 2008 9:06 pm

Thank you Karim, Gillian and Mac for the short way back to the good old Mussafah days, unfortunatel nothing is left

Still it was fun to be out with you there, at least my old BBQ spot is still there and untouched ( it was the small area I took the lead for 10 minutes ).

Think we should change to Abu Sallaf as I do not like the Car Museum area so much, just flat on the left side and f***ng soft on the right side with nice rocks at the bottom of the slopes.

Mike

MooD · Post by **MooD** » Sat May 10, 2008 9:27 pm

Sorry Kareem .................... but I was on Call today and I started my duty around 1:30...........

but i left early

Its A bad news that no more Musafah.........

but i agree with Mike We can go to Abu Sallaf where its A small area but nice and close to the Main Roads we had a great trip yesterday there......
See you Soon

Bradley · Post by **Bradley** » Sun May 11, 2008 12:34 pm

So sad that everything changes

and so we have to adapt...... 8)

Pitty that I missed the post, I would have loved to join.

off_Road · Post by **off_Road** » Sun May 11, 2008 1:51 pm

oh sad news,

but still there Abu Sallaf , Nahishlla near from Abu Dhabi

& we should continue exploring diffrent places for more fun

jc · Post by jc » Sun May 11, 2008 1:55 pm

off_Road wrote:oh sad news,

but still there Abu Sallaf , Nahishlla near from Abu Dhabi

& we should continue exploring diffrent places for more fun

What about Hmeem side of Museum???????????????????

off_Road · Post by **off_Road** » Sun May 11, 2008 2:02 pm

JC
hameem side ,,, this area also nice but there no big dune ..

I think khaiwi and bulldozer already explored that area.
I will explore that area soon

jc · Post by jc » Sun May 11, 2008 4:16 pm

off_Road wrote:JC
hameem side ,,, this area also nice but there no big dune .. I think khaiwi and bulldozer already explored that area.
I will explore that area soon

Saeed not worried about big dunes Liwa is for that just looking for newbie areas, some with flowing dunes others with short close together dunes that require technical skills, an areawhere newbies can learn these skills possibly without toooo much risk of breaking their car

Bulldozer · Post by **Bulldozer** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:21 am

Hameem area is not for newbies in any way u guys look at it unless u drive in the ghatch, Summer \start liwa is CLOSED even for intermediate