Al Wakra

We went for a drive down to Al Wakra today, which is the nearest town to Doha heading south along the coast. Really it seems like an outer suburb as it is only a few minutes along the open highway, but does have the history of being it’s own entity over time so is not considered as being a southern part of Doha.

After sitting in the park feeding the wildlife (re: cats) bits of KFC we headed down onto the sand. At the southern end is the fishing harbour, which seemed very sleepy but did have many fishing Dhows tied up (looked like more than in Doha), and what looked like a couple of sand football pitches (if there is such a thing… but there were goal posts set up).

The beach at Al Wakra is a wide tidal beach with clumps of mangroves and the odd car part giving the sand bars something to grab hold of. We spent what seemed like a couple of hours wandering along sand and wading through shallow warm waters searching for shells. We even found a few unopened pearl shells, but when opened unfortunately didn’t have any little pearls in them. A nice way to spend an afternoon and will be even nicer when it starts to warm up a little… so somewhere we shall return to!