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Today we visted the Dubai desert conservation reserve to check out the Dunes.

It’s vast and seemlingly endless out there. The sand is very fine and has a slight red tinge to it, apparantly there are seven colours of sand out here.
Our guide drove us out to a camel farm to have a look at some of the baby camels which were pretty cute, and still very tall for two weeks old!
After checking out the babies it was time to have a bit of a ride on the adults.  I’ve never ridden on a camel before and didn’t realise they were so tall.  My parents camel let everyone know how much it loathed to get up, moaning and groaning as soon as its master told it to stand.  I didn’t get a good video of my parents with it, but here’s one of some americans who jumped on after us on my parents camel.

After our camel trip it was time to get to down and dirty with sand skiing!  Sure I’ve never quite used a board like this before and there were over 20 people whatching but that didn’t stop me being the first to have a go.

I did ok until I levelled out and tried to slow down.  I don’t think you can really turn the board at all, you just have to ride it out and hope no one is in front of you.

Highlights of the day for me included this Norwegian guy who spun out of control and flipped his way to the bottom.  Nothing like a face full of sand to make you feel alive.