Morning Newbie Desert Drive - Qudra Dunes Last Exit Coffee - Dubai - 24 May 2025

[Andrew John Melvill]

@Davie Smooth_Operator, with the yellow truck madness postponed I have stuck myself on your waitlist on the slight off chance there is a slot available tomorrow. 

Cheers Andrew

[Andrew John Melvill]

@Davie Smooth_Operator thanks mate see you in the morning

[Diego]

Happy to follow Ana!! 🚙🚙

[_luke_]

Good morning 

[saumik1989]

Got a puncture found it out while fueling up . Sincere apologies @Davie Smooth_Operator... Will not be able to join the drive today

[_luke_]

What a morning! 

 

First of all, THANK YOU to everyone for your help and patience today. Teamwork is how off-roading works, and everyone showed great spirit today during the recovery. 

 

These do happen to everyone at some point,. We   ALL. get a turn 😅😅😅

 

@Davie Smooth_Operator great leading, @Alex M thanks for finessing Davies lines and thx for make sure we didn't leave anyone behind @Andrew John Melvill

 

We covered a nice bunch of different terrain in nice clean sand. Up and down over some big dunes. Some sidie practise, and navigating through soft patches.

I've never driven in this part of Dubai before... Great fun. 

After all that sand play.. stopping for a ice coffee at last exit at the end was HEAVENLY! 

enjoy the rest of your weekend, and hope to see you all again soon!

 

If you took any photos, please add them to the drive gallery 🙏

[Davie Smooth_Operator]

Dear Desert Wanderers,  @Alex M, @Herman G, @Soap, @sands23a, @Zahid Sharif, @AHSANAWAN 123, @Luke K P, @khurramm, @Danie, @Kashx2, @Ana, @Diego, @essam ibrahimi@Sherry Jacob,and  @Andrew John Melvill, thank you all for showing up on time this morning and participating in such a fun drive in Qudra.

as @Luke K P said we had a little of everything including a tricky stuck to deal with at the end. Everyone worked together as a team to enable us to calmly and safely deal with the situation. I really did appreciate all of the patience that everyone showed today and the great team work displayed with the rope work and the exceptional shovelling that was on display. I truly hope everyone learned from this experience and as @Luke K P says it could happen to any of us.

great second lead by @Alex M follow my last minute corrections and smoothing the lines out for you all to follow, thanks and appreciated.

Our sweep for the day was @Andrew John Melvill who did an amazing job keeping me informed and some excellent rope work during our recovery. thanks Andrew always great to have you in the convoy.

And lastly we had our newly promoted Advisor @Luke K P in the Center of the convoy. What can I say, except, brilliant as always mate, you brought a calmness to proceedings as only you can, great patience and knowledge to assist the few refusals we had and fantastic supper and assistance during the last stuck making it an easier task than it could of been receiving the LC. Appreciate all the effort and assistance today mate, thanks again.

thanks to all that joined us for coffee, it was fantastic to chat and get to know you all 😃

Hope you all have a great rest of your weekend and here is a small video to relive the experience 

https://www.relive.com/view/vrqDywRPVLv
 

 

Edited May 24, 2025 by Davie Smooth_Operator

[Ana]

Thank you @Davie Smooth_Operatorfor an amazing kick of the weekend, it was fun with lots of learnings. 
Few photos of the cars and the flamingos 🦩 

[_luke_]

4 hours ago, Ana said:

Thank you @Davie Smooth_Operatorfor an amazing kick of the weekend, it was fun with lots of learnings. 
Few photos of the cars and the flamingos 🦩 

The flamingos was amazing 🤩  @Ana seriously surprised to see so many of them just chilling in the lakes

[Diego]

Big lesson on recovery and dessert environment management.

specially… don’t grab an aluminum shovel while at 51 degrees. 😂

thabks for the drive !