Oh yes! we needed that rain .. oh we surely did ! .. although we have huge water distillers which tranform sea water into fresh drinking water and distripute it through out the country (lots of water here no problem), but it's dead, no life in it .. I can't descripe it wet, but last spring, just one day before it rains (rain came late last year) our garden (at home) was really dull, all green but so dull, then it rained for two days, and infront of my eyes, the berry tree which had no berries in two days is heavily loaded with it, loooong ones, all same size, all green, which suggests that it boomed out all of the sudden (otherwise we should see different sizes and defferent stages of growth as usualy the case!) .. then I looked at the rest of the garden, it's all live, you feel that some of it is laughing, others are taking a very comfortable and peaceful nap, while some are working it out !! .. amazing, no comparision between dead distilled water and rain !!
I guess mangroves can't live in cold coasts, maybe vulnerable to frost.
I guess so, it is a more warmth kinda plants.
I walked through the mangroves in Malaysia, hard to walk since there are so many roots sticking up. The little mudskippers and crabs were a lot faster than I was.
I bet it was fun wet ! .. once when young, we went quite deep into the mangroves while it was low tide, we forgot ourselves, and one of us noticed that the high tide is coming! (because of the different levels of the soil you can't feel it if you were standing at a relatively high point unless you notice the edges) so it was the big race out of the mangroves! .. rofl .. man that was thrilling, one of us stepped onto soft mud and he was stuck and started to dip into it so fast ! I pulled himfrom his hands then another kid helped and he was out but lost one of his shoes and wanted to get it back !!! I shouted at him: shoe ?!! thank God you are not with it down there, lets runnnnnn ! .. and finally we made it through that maze of mangroves with least loss .. one pair of shoes and muds all over our clothes ..
.. I loved that experience, all of us did, yes even the one who lost his shoe and got a good lecture back from his mother .. the thing is that we were all thinking that we could get banned from going back there if they would know what realy made him lose his shoe !! .. anyway it was a one life mistake you know .. we were all experiensed ..
.. rofl
Are there any crocodiles or big sharks in the area around UAE?
Crocodiles not realy (not naturaly at least) .. but big sharks ? ofcourse, all kinds except whites and baskin, I didn't hear of any sight seeing here in UAE .. look at this thread:
http://forums.deeperblue.net/general-scuba/70070-news-four-metre-whale-shark-abu-dhabi-port.html?highlight=whale+shark
Although their numbers lessened quite below normal because of uncontroled hunting through out the past 30 years ! .. but still you can spot them from time to time if you were lucky, I'm talking about sharks in general, not whale sharks!
