Eearly Saturday Butterfly trip

Mac · Post by **Mac** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:51 pm

Where do I begin?
Yes we saw thousands of small butterflys today, no idea where they came from or where they were going ( bit like us).
This was an exploring route in Sweihan area and boy did we explore! I have just got home 13 hours after leaving.
Bowls, bowls and more bowls full of very soft sand set the pattern for the first hour, thanks to Kiwi for being my 2nd in convoy and heeding every instruction I gave him to take the convoy around these obstacles.
We got stuck in some horrible places but then picked up a better route? and carried on.
We were heading for Khatim, when H3 got into a bad situation and Mood had to lead the convoy out to Khatim whilst JC, Avan and me helped out with Simon's situation, thanks to you all.
Hope everyone got home safely from Khatim sorry I didn,t have a chance to say thanks and goodbye, but I hope you enjoyed this Intermediate plus challenging route today.
H3 and I are safely back in AD and his car is at Liberty Autos.
We also had on the trip Avan's friend, Chris, who is the Chairman of a 4x4 club in Cape Town, I am sure that what he experinced today was teamwork and the spirit of AD 4x4.

A big thanks to everyone for being patient today it wasn,t an easy route but you were all great, thanks for the pull outs, I am not leading again for a while, you Advanced people can see what it is all about trying to lead a convoy thro unchartered territory!!

kghaleb · Post by **kghaleb** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:02 pm

Today UAE announced The "start of the summer season"... where else would you spend 9+ hours??
Was it worth it? YES. 8)

Thanks Mac for a great day in the softies of the desert..had fun and challenged my offroad driving skills and Jeep

Uristier · Post by **Uristier** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:32 pm

Hey Mac It seems you had a veeeery good trip this morning. Are you all "Softies" now? Did you enter the soft bowls as waypoints yeaterday on the way back from Seihan?

I was trapped in a dark room all day giving some lessons (not off road).

kghaleb · Post by **kghaleb** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:42 pm

Uristier wrote:Hey Mac It seems you had a veeeery good trip this morning. Are you all "Softies" now? Did you enter the soft bowls as waypoints yeaterday on the way back from Seihan?

I was trapped in a dark room all day giving some lessons (not off road).

hello Urs..that's a new ranking now **Softies**

Yehia · Post by **Yehia** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:49 pm

Uristier wrote:Hey Mac It seems you had a veeeery good trip this morning. Are you all "Softies" now? Did you enter the soft bowls as waypoints yeaterday on the way back from Seihan?

I was trapped in a dark room all day giving some lessons (not off road).

Urs Habibi, it seems you also had a nice time

Nessie · Post by **Nessie** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:02 pm

A big thank you for another great day out .....most enjoyable

c u all soon

Kiwi · Post by **Kiwi** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:21 pm

Hey Mac,
It was pleasure to be lead across uncharted country...

I am sure one day (winter - firm sand) we will cross those bowls and discover some more.
Thanks for leading us all.
Cheers
Mark

Avan · Post by **Avan** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:49 pm

Fun ...someone stuck ....recover....Fun ...someone stuck ....recover....Fun....someone stuck ....recover....Fun....rescue 911..

What a morning....

A big "thank you " from Chris who was totally amazed at our comraderie of our united nations family of AD4x4...he will be taking back many memories and photos of our wonderfull family

jc · Post by jc » Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:58 pm

Second day in the soft sand what a great day thanks Mac for the day thanks to everybody who came.

Simon Hope you are Ok now next time we need to put a trcker on you

or a really big CHAIN

MooD · Post by **MooD** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:08 pm

What a day????? to tell you the truth.............. I'm enjoying to off road in the soft Sand............ My and Jc drove more than 5 km without engaging the 4Wd........... it was funny.............. and Jc Deg A hole but he managed to get out within 10 min.................

As Iguana keep saying we are one family so We have to take care about each other...............

Mac thanks for the day.................. H3 hopping your car will recover soon to see you on the sand next weekend.....
Thanx all hopping to see you all next week.................

belbassiouni · Post by **belbassiouni** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 12:36 am

Thanks Mac it was an Endurance trip 8)
Thanks Mood for leading us out
Thanks every one for the nice time, help, coffee, and cookies
Sorry Simon for your car, hope will covered under warrantee

H3 · Post by H3 » Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:09 am

What a day, to say challenging would be an understatement, but having the A/C pack in during the morning followed by the power steering I was struggling for the last couple of hours and then that stuck, the heat got to me and I'd just about had it. Goes to show how important it is to have plenty of water and cool drinks to hand in situations like this, normally i go home with water to spare, yesterday used evrything in the coolbox with the ice coming in handy as a cool pack on my head.

Many, many thanks to you all for helping me out and Mac & Jim for waiting for the wrecker truck and dropping me off safely in Abu Dhabi.

I was asleep on the sofa by about 6pm and stayed that way until this morning.

Thanks again guys, see you on another fun packed day out soon.

belbassiouni · Post by **belbassiouni** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:40 pm

H3 wrote:What a day, to say challenging would be an understatement, but having the A/C pack in during the morning followed by the power steering I was struggling for the last couple of hours and then that stuck, the heat got to me and I'd just about had it. Goes to show how important it is to have plenty of water and cool drinks to hand in situations like this, normally i go home with water to spare, yesterday used evrything in the coolbox with the ice coming in handy as a cool pack on my head.

Many, many thanks to you all for helping me out and Mac & Jim for waiting for the wrecker truck and dropping me off safely in Abu Dhabi.

I was asleep on the sofa by about 6pm and stayed that way until this morning.

Thanks again guys, see you on another fun packed day out soon.

same for me I Run out of water and drinks by 11 am

and started borrowing till we reached ADNOC @2:15.

I forgot to thank Lars for the Nice Shade 8) , Kiwi for the umbrella 8) and Mood for Water spraying the trip members

kghaleb · Post by **kghaleb** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:54 pm

belbassiouni wrote:
H3 wrote:What a day, to say challenging would be an understatement, but having the A/C pack in during the morning followed by the power steering I was struggling for the last couple of hours and then that stuck, the heat got to me and I'd just about had it. Goes to show how important it is to have plenty of water and cool drinks to hand in situations like this, normally i go home with water to spare, yesterday used evrything in the coolbox with the ice coming in handy as a cool pack on my head.

Many, many thanks to you all for helping me out and Mac & Jim for waiting for the wrecker truck and dropping me off safely in Abu Dhabi.

I was asleep on the sofa by about 6pm and stayed that way until this morning.

Thanks again guys, see you on another fun packed day out soon.
same for me I Run out of water and drinks by 11 am and started borrowing till we reached ADNOC @2:15.

I forgot to thank Lars for the Nice Shade 8) , Kiwi for the umbrella 8) and Mood for Water spraying the trip members

MOOD WAS CHIEF AIRCONDITIONING...Good stuff!!