Surveyor. Dragonfly at Wadi Dayqah, Quriyat, Oman
Down from the impressive Al Hajar Al Sharqi Mountains descend precipitously a number of Wadis: Tayin, Dima, Khabbah, all flowing together. From the village of Tul downward the resulting flow is called Wadi Dayqah. It's in this Wadi that a large double dam (a Saddle Dam and a Main Dam) has been constructed (2012). Here in the photo is part of the resulting lake. Overflow courses downward through an alluvial plain to the town of Daghmar just south of Quriyat, murderously sacked by the Portuguese at the beginning of the sixteenth century and part of their seaborne empire until the middle of the seventeenth. Today it's a bustling fishing town with some impressive forts.
Surveying a view of the lake was this Dragonfly!
PS I wonder whether someone will identify it for me... It looks like a Darter of some kind. Thanks.
Surveyor. Dragonfly at Wadi Dayqah, Quriyat, Oman
Down from the impressive Al Hajar Al Sharqi Mountains descend precipitously a number of Wadis: Tayin, Dima, Khabbah, all flowing together. From the village of Tul downward the resulting flow is called Wadi Dayqah. It's in this Wadi that a large double dam (a Saddle Dam and a Main Dam) has been constructed (2012). Here in the photo is part of the resulting lake. Overflow courses downward through an alluvial plain to the town of Daghmar just south of Quriyat, murderously sacked by the Portuguese at the beginning of the sixteenth century and part of their seaborne empire until the middle of the seventeenth. Today it's a bustling fishing town with some impressive forts.
Surveying a view of the lake was this Dragonfly!
PS I wonder whether someone will identify it for me... It looks like a Darter of some kind. Thanks.