Home: Middle East: Oman: Mid Coast:
Listen, Stranger! Storm and Wind, /
A Wind and Tempest strong! /
For days and weeks it play'd us freaks-- /
Like Chaff we drove along.
The Rime of the Ancient Marinere, in Seven Parts. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798 version
We had driven directly from Muscat for this trip, and it was dusk by the time we came to Duqm, which will offer you nothing more than fuel and food, unless fish factories interest you.