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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

#Kuwait - Beach morning

Just the usual insanity

From 365 - 2014

These bags are usually used by the trash picker-uppers...

From 365 - 2014

Drifting at the beach - the second favorite part time here it seems, trashing up the beach must be #1

From 365 - 2014

Enjoy - Indeed

From 365 - 2014

Fitting name

From 365 - 2014

Friday, April 4, 2014

No more Fahaheel beach. At least not with the dogs.
And what's the point of going there without?
I guess someone higher up must have gotten scared.
Oh well. For now we still have Mangaf beach.
Not for much longer, I'm afraid, since they are building all that fancy stuff there.
But with all that trash around it really ain't no fun anyway. All the dogs want to do these days, is
go and roam for scraps. Yuck.

From 365 - 2014

I am glad they are doing more against the trash. It got a little better it seems,
but people are still very disrespectful.

From 365 - 2014

Saturday, February 8, 2014

#Kuwait - Mangaf beach

A morning at the beach. It was almost clean for once. I was impressed.
Either the rant of the Lady on the Kuwait up to Date page resulted in some
action or the clean up effort was due to the weekend ahead. Who knows.
There were at least 8 trash bags (black ones, the city workers usually use yellow ones).
So, if anyone can enlighten this mystery for me, be my guest :-)

The 'whatever it will be' building in the back seems to be coming to an end of it's construction phase.
Still weird for me to see that there.

From Kuwait 2013 / 14

Lots of pebbles are back and hence the sea glass as well. Brought some home of course ;-)

Construction bricks are there too. I've seen those before way down to the right of the beach.

I guess the current goes from right to left, up towards the city. (If there is such a thing)

I always thought it would go the other way around?

From Kuwait 2013 / 14

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

#365 - My beautiful 'hood

I try to ignore it most of the time.

About this spot, I can write a photo story....maybe I will one of these days.

From 365 - 2014

And this one is the dumping ground for trash left in appartments when people leave or get new furniture.

Once a month it gets cleaned up.
Newest thing is to dump food Leftovers all over the place. Great!

From 365 - 2014

Monday, November 18, 2013

#Kuwait - Rock no more

The rocks are now piled up besides the sand

From Kuwait 2013

I am not entirely sure, what those people are doing down at the beach this time. Since yesterday they are carting sand and rocks from left to right. As far as I can tell from here, there are no more rocks left on the (my) left side of the beach.
Update Nov 23rd: The tide has taken the rocks back into the ocean and you can only see them at very low tide. Still need to go down and take photos.

2008

From Kuwait

Not sure, if they want to make this a sweet nice sandy beach for the new resort that they are building at the 'Amir's place' (or whatever the heck that will be, when finished).

View 2008, high tide and the fence bordering the Amir's palace

From Kuwait

View February 2013, low tide - now, November: no more rocks (need to take new photos)

The old pier and fence of the Amir palace in 2010

From Kuwait

Part of the old fence and the dogs having fun

From The kids

There was already no more sea glass after they removed the pier and all the other things which blocked the original tide line.

Due to the rocks missing, I didn't sea any sea urchins this year.

2008

From Kuwait

And if they remove all the rocks, all the snails (or whatever their correct name is) will be gone too.
With it, the few birdy migrants that still come here will have nothing to snack on, but the trash that floats in or that people leave behind. And there's enough of that.

From Kuwait 2013

Oh well, humans and their grand plans at work, again.

From Birds Kuwait 2010

Old rocks 2007

From Kuwait

Thursday, September 19, 2013

#Kuwait - 3 x Fail

3 x Fail / 3 x knapp daneben ist auch vorbei ;-)

From 365 - 2013

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

#Kuwait - Beauty on my morning walk

A beautiful sight, every morning.
The 'yellow men' have tried to clean up around here, but my neighbours don't seem to give a shit.

From 365 - 2013

Monday, April 29, 2013

#365 - Yellow horizon, healthy!

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

#365 - Plumes from the refineries, yummy!

Thursday, April 18, 2013

#Kuwait - The Beauty and the Beast

Mother Nature and I wept some tears this morning.
The beach has been the worst since I got here.
Trash upon trash and heaps of algae (whatever that's supposed to mean).

The weather is hazy, but at least it was cool.
The dogs had fun :-)
King shed so much fur these past two weeks, he was clean and dry by the time we reached the house.
Now, that's nice for a change (he usually stays wet till evening).

The guy in the second last photo is the one I talked about on yesterday's post.
He was there again today.

The man in the other photo seemed to be praying. I don't know if it's Indian custom to pray at the water? One morning I let a woman pass in front of me, going down to the waters edge for some rinsing with water and praying.

I silently apologized to Mother Nature for not cleaning up the beach, collecting bottles and whatnot.
I think, she understands since I found a very unique, beautiful pottery shard right after.
I love the little signs, call me crazy, I don't care ;-)

Here's for wishing that people would just show some more respect and at least clean up after themselves. Shame on you, whoever and wherever you all are.