OYSTERS

Down by the beach, below our house at the compound, where they will be storing the salt and building a jetty where the large ships will come for loading, there is a fabulous bay called the Goubet Al Kharab. It is filled with fish and seafood. We can see many colorful fish and teaming schools of fish just from the shore.

Two of Salt Investment's Phillipine contract employees go often into the water and bring back pink mussels, clams, fish and even oysters. Last week they encountered a huge eel. John is holding one of the oyster shells from an oyster they found and ate. It is a special oyster, the kind seeded to produce pearls. Legend has it, that someone many years ago wanted to start a pearl production facility here and planted these oysters. Long abandoned, they have just multiplied on their own. Have you ever seen such a large oyster shell before?

When we come back in February, after our leave home, we are bringing our snorkels, fins and throwaway underwater camera so we can see these wonderful creatures up close. We will try and take some great pictures to share on our blog.