Leaving Dubai
This is our itinerary for the first part of the cruise now we were leaving Dubai.
I was fascinated by the views of Dubai as we sailed out of the port.
QE2 from Oceana.
The Dubai Frame.
More planes.
The ship’s photographers were busy too.
A dhow coming into port.
The Burj Khalifa.
Once we were further from the shore we could see the Atlantis hotel on the Palm.
I think I could make out building work on The World, another reclaimed development in Dubai. I had read recently on the Internet that hotels were now being built on some of the islands of The World.
Behind us a large plume of black smoke appeared and slowly drifted to obscure the whole coastline as we sailed further out into the Gulf.
Our first port was to be Abu Dhabi and this meant sailing up the Gulf only a relatively short way.