A walk to the shore

I'm a sweaty mess. I went for a walk this evening. I think I started around 3:30 and just got back. It is 7 now. So not to bad of a walk. I need to learn how to control my stride. I walk to fast for the heat. It isn't even that hot out. ok so maybe I was wrong. I just checked the weather and it is 82 but it feels like 87. If that is the temp at 7 at night, I wonder what it was like during the day. That could explain the sweat.

So anyway I found the American Embassy. It is just down the street from me. Maybe a mile or two. It sort of snuck up on me and it's a huge complex. Not that that is of any importance to this, but good to know where it is.

So I put on my lungi, that purplish sarong thing I got in India, grabbed my camera bag, and put on my head phones and walked out the door. I then took a left and walked straight and kept walking straight until I could walk no more. I was at the shore. I passed a lot of western chain restaurants, B.K., Krispy Kream, McD's, Chilli's to name but a few. Once I hit the shore, I turned and headed toward the beach. It was a bit of a hike from when I first hit the water front. The beach is more like a car park of compacted dirt, with a little bit of soft sand right before the water.

There were a few Saudi families enjoying the weather and relaxing waterside. Some were flying kites, a lot of men were fishing from the beach. Nobody was swimming. I don't know if Saudis don't swim or the shear amount of fishing poles and lines discourages people from swimming. Several people were going into the water about knee deep. Two old men were playing soccer on a run down pitch. And there were hoards of people on 4 wheelers, just tooling around. One kid about 9 years of age flipped his. I laughed to myself. He was alright, if you were wondering. I went to a Mosque at the end of the beach and sat behind it and read my book and people watched whilst waiting for the sunset. The sunset was disappointing. The cloud cover on the horizon was too thick and blocked it out. I'll have to try another day.

While people watching, there were several people fishing in front of me. Several men moved to the shore to take a picture and BAM, one of them gets hit in the head with a fish that one of the fishermen caught. It was some funny shit. Shortly after that I decided to head back home and stop off at the pier before I take my turn back home. At the pier, there is a huge jet of water that shoots up into the air, I don't know how high, but it is high. Took a few pictures of that and headed back home.
That was pretty much my day.