Beach BBQ

This morning we loaded up the car with our cooler and beach stuff for a BBQ caching event at the beach. We were excited as this was also our first trip to the beach since we moved here. The cachers that were hosting the event are actual real Bahrainis, which you don't meet very often because there are mostly international people here. They provided all kinds of food and cooked all day during the event. We had BBQ chicken, lamb, corn with cheese, lemon, and salt, and also hamburgers. We were the first cachers besides the hosts to show up and we just ate the whole day because they kept cooking food and giving it to us. LOL

There was a huge group of cachers coming from Qatar to visit and they contacted us asking if we would have an event this weekend. It was the perfect day for this event because it was absolutely beautiful outside. Actually today was the first day since the day we moved here in July that we spent most of our day outside. It has always been way too hot. And even though today there was a light breeze, Steve and I got our very first sunburns here. LOL

Once the cachers from Qatar arrived, Tyler had a little friend to play with. It wasn't very long before the two hit it off. It was hilarious watching them because whatever Tyler would do, she would immediately do the same right after. They had a blast playing in the sand together. The group are all originally from South Africa but has been living in Qatar for 10 years. They were a wonderful group of people and one lady Steve and I talked to told us all about their travels since living in Qatar.

After everyone ate, we got in our vehicles and went throughout the desert to find some caches. We only had a little time because the Qatar cachers had to go and check in to their hotel before it got too late. The caches we found  brought us to some interesting places. One took us to a beautiful view of the desert which you don't get to see too often because it's so flat here and another cache, we got to see some cool remains of when the British military was here in the 40's. They built these storage units on the side of the mountain to store dynamite. The Bahraini cachers also took us all to the Museum of Oil site and the Tree of Life. In conclusion, it was a pretty awesome event! They said they have a lot of events on the island here to make up for the very few caches hidden. We are already looking forward to the next one.