Omani men often do the marketing. The prawn seller. Omani prawns are scrumptious and come into season in August. This fellow keeps his takings in his hat. And just to finish, a view of Wadi Abyadh near Nakhl, also another wadi which flows almost perennially, fed by springs rising from fractures in the ophiolites that line the wadi walls and in the underlying alluvium.
Blue pools are common here.
See Geology of Oman . If you motor then walk north along this wadi from Abyadh village, you should cross the Moho, which is the division geologists make between crust and mantle rocks. My friend Alan says it's just a structural contact here. Unfortunately, I never made it to the Moho. Back to Oman for more Off-road pages.