Dhows, boat building in the gulf

Building a boom in 1972

careening

Boat building - Doha - 1972

sewn

I really love the shape of Dhow boats.

The pictures show boats being built in  the UAE and Qatar.

I have noticed a lot of traditional fishing boats on Dammam corniche can anyone tell where they are built?

Sci-tech





Lots of things to do

We pressed lots of buttons.

Lots of things to try

A wonderful Aqarium

Experimenting with creating dams



a view of the Atrium from the cafe



Last weekend we went to Sci-tech museum at Khobar corniche, its a favourite with our family. There is also an Imax cinema. This time we brought home a telescope so I'm now on the look out for a decent star map relevant to us if anyone knows where I can get one please let me know?

http://www.scitech.com.sa/?PUrl=Main&Lang=EN

By the way if you have any Dinosaurs fans in your family sci-tech will be having a dinosaur exhibition from the 8th of February in collaboration with the Natural History Museum in London.

Amendment

Well we went to see the exhibition yesterday only to be told there is no dinosaur exhibit, and that actually it was last year so I must apologise to anyone who went. Sorry. It seems Sci-tech hasn't updated their English website for a year. Next time I will call to check anything up and coming , we were all so disappointed.

Saudi ARAMCO exhibit

 We had a little trip at the weekend to the ARAMCO exhibit, we have never been before so we piled into my Dads car and went to take a look, I m afraid I didn't get many photos just of the outside. It was of course mainly about oil and its processes and uses and three of my four children are really too young to appreciate the facts but they enjoyed pressing buttons. However I was so impressed by Kuku my eldest she went around totally absorbed and even got her visual diary out to make some notes!!!

                                    I was very interested in the landscaping there, I miss gardens.



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