The Beach in Al Thakira

Since our kayak plan was cancelled due to the weather, we decided to go on picnic at Purple Island in Al Thakira (the location was on Google Map), however, the road going to the island was completely unaccessible with the seawater.
So we went to the nearby Flower Each Spring Camp nearby.
We enjoyed the beach there, before the camp guard came and asked us to go out, saying we were not supposed to enter private property.

We decided to go the Al Thakira beach, the same place we went last week for crabbing.
This time, since it was daylight, we could see the path to a place like a jetty, where many people were fishing.
Quite a nice walking and view there.
People were fishing squid and crab.
Quite interesting how they fished crab, they were using squid as a bait, and the crab grabbed the squid, the pulled and took the crab with a net.
We also met some young friendly Arabic local, let us shared their mat.

The desert between Flower Each Spring Camp and Purple Island

The way to Purple Island

The way to Purple Island

Flower Each Spring Camp

Flower Each Spring Camp

Flower Each Spring Camp

Flower Each Spring Camp

Crabbing

Crabbing is an activity catching crabs in the sea.
I did this first time like in 2003, when I came to Qatar for the first time. Filipino colleagues took me at night to go to a beach in Al Khor. The sea was in low tide, when we entered the water, millions of crabs walking on the sea sand, and we easily caught them by bare hands (hurt though).

This time, after 13 years, on 17 November 2016, I took my young colleagues to crabbing.
I tried to go to Al Khor beach, as informed by a colleague, but I was not really sure about the location. We arrived in a beach, but the tide was too low that no water up to far.
When I asked a local Arabic guy who were camping fire there, he said I should go to Al Thakira.
Luckily our driver knew the location of Al Thakira beach, so we headed there.

When we arrived in Al Thakira, already some Filipino group making camp fire and baking crabs.
I was happy, finally we found the right place for crabbing.
The friendly group offered us their grilled crabs.
We went into the sea to catch crabs ourselves, but somehow, we couldn't spot any crabs!
I believe the Filipino groups have taken all the crabs...

Not only crabs, the Filipino groups were hunting fish and squid also.
I found some shells that Japanese people like to collect during Shiohigari.