INFO:
Located in Khiran
District near the borders of Saudi Arabia (36 km) and about 110 km away from
Kuwait city. This area currently under construction for a marine mega-planned
project "Sabah Al Ahmad Sea City" along the coast. It has transferred
a vast area of salt marsh into waterfront development. It looked like a big
palm that will accommodate by over 150,000 people. The project have been started since 2002.
Location:
Mastermind Plan
Day view
Night view
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Friday, 14th Oct 2016
Camping, Cycling and Crabbing (3C)
Preparation
We had planned this camping a week earlier, so that we prepare properly. We bought some camping stuffs like tents, cooking set, sleeping bag and others at Decathlon, Marina Mall. You can get all the adventures stuffs over here. Halim bought swimming suit and fins.
We went to Al-Ghanim Marine near to Al-Kout Mall in Fahaheel to buy fishing rod, snorkel gear and spear fishing gun. In term of quality, it is better with reasonable price.
The polystyrene ice-box (white colour) we bought at Al-Kout fishing market at KD 1.25. You can also buy ice cube here.
Al-Kout Fishing Market
The fish market in Friday's early morning very crowded with people who are getting their weekly food supply.
We bought fish and squid for fishing baits here.
The fish market area very clean and dry.
The price for a full of fish in the red basket (~ 15kg) about KD 3. Some of them buy the basket of fish and resell it at the small scale (per kg).
Fresh fish
I'm ready!
We drove from Mangaf to Khairan about 74km toward the south (~ 1 hour drive) with 2 4WDs.
The Khairan beach near to Al-Zour Power Plant.
Al-zour Power plant
We agreed to set up our camp under the bridge next to abandoned KOC Rest-house. Good camping spot; shaded area with nice scenery.
The beach very nice but rubbish make pain on our eyes. We collected all trash and put into plastic bags that we brought along. This is all about attitude!
The beach very nice but rubbish make pain on our eyes. We collected all trash and put into plastic bags that we brought along. This is all about attitude!
Bridge, Beach and Rig
Quechua Tent
Halim, Shai, Imros and I
Imros came with his son
We went to friday prayer at Masjid Walid Al-Marzuq, about 5km from our campsite. It just opened last year (2015)
After prayer, we prepared lunch underneath bridge. Our menu, fried fish with rice. Yummy!!
I brought 2 cooking stoves that i bought in Decathlon.
The sea-breeze blew gently and made us felt sleepy.
Hj Nazlan and Che Noor came to our campsite at 3.00pm. They brought the special crab catchers from Malaysia, what we called "Bento" or "Tangkoi". They teaches us how to use them.
We need to put a fish in the middle of bento as bait.
The bento will be tied up with coloured rope (visible) with empty plastic at the end of rope as floater. Bento will land on the seafloor.
We need to check the bento every hour. We got at least get one crab per bento.
Normally in this region, you may get Blue crab (Big size - 4-6" body length).
Hj Nazlan cooked "Maggi Ketam" (Crab Instants Noodle). Very delicious and tasty. The crabs so fresh.
Shai prepared black coffee (Kopi Baling). Marvellous!
Imros and Shai enjoyed their Crab Noodle.
We spent time chit chat among ourselves, what the next plan for coming winter season. Now the temperature gradually decrease, at night it was about 25 - 28 degree C.
My "Oleng" underneath the bridge.
Syukri and his daughters came on the late evening but luckily they didn't miss the "Maggi Ketam".
We took an initiative to collect all the rubbish that been dumped by previous visitors. The broken glass (bottle) on beach may hurt somebody especially kids. Beware.
Our campsite at night
Syukri, the most senior malaysian who has been here about 10 years.
Che Nor and Hj Nazlan continued their mission; fishing at night.
That night, full moon, you can see clearly the rig at night. Amazing. Subhanallah.
Syukri and his kids having fun grilled the potatoes.
We slept at 11.00pm.
Saturday, 15th Oct 2016
We spent a marvellous moment see the sunrise at Khiran Beach. Speechless.
On the another side of campsite, i saw an animal, I though it was a dog but a fennec fox (Vulpes Zerda), with large ears and long tail (white spot).
We had our breakfast at 7.00am. Fried mutton, fried fish and rice.
Cycling Time
After breakfast, Shai and I cycled around Al-Khiran about 18km within 1.45 hours. We cycled from Campsite to Al-Khiran Resort.
Strava:
Blue sky, white sand and greenish blue water.
We spent our time to explore the Sabah Al-Ahmad Sea City.
Al-Khiran Resort was the oldest resort here, which was operated since 1987 and has been suspended their operation during Iraq's invasion.
Sabah Al-Ahmad Sea City under construction
I thought this area was a dedicated place for Caravan camping. There are 4-5 caravans spotted here facing to beach.
We stop-by to have an ice-cream.
We went back to campsite at 11:00am.
Crabbing session again (Final dive)
More crab coming..
We got 14 crabs in 2 hours.
Enjoyed our crab noodle..yummy. Fresh crab.
After lunch, we rigged down and packed our stuffs at 2pm. An hour later, we started our journey home.
We reached Mangaf at 4pm.
Very exhausted but enjoyed with our new experience.
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