So finally (in fact around 2/3weeks ago) Winter has arrived and the blazing heat has subsided.
This weekend, I have taken full advantage with a visit to the Beach yesterday (the water was cool but not cold) and this morning I went for a relatively late bike ride into the desert (7am start, finished around 9:30am just as things were starting to warm up).
This afternoon I went for a round of golf at the Meydan course - next to the racetrack but actually quite rural and we saw Oryx cavorting around the fairways but also - for only the second time in the 16 odd years I have been in Dubai, a desert fox who was taking a very close interest in the Oryx.
They are usually pretty shy but this one had clearly got its sights on a potential dinner as an Oryx with a full set of antlers and a much younger version pelted around the course. Very much a Dubai style day, and whilst the quality of the golf was not up to much, the views of the Dubai skyline (and the wildlife) were excellent.
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