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@Carnity @Gaurav @Srikumar@Frederic @Hisham Masaad @Asif Hussain @Shaaz Sha @Rizwanm2 @Abed M @Looper and every one from the carnity family members from old and new faces . Thank you for this grand lovely outing truly much needed. special thanks to @Gaurav for organizing this event along with the support from the crew and advisors and support . I and my little copilot Abdallah very much enjoyed it indeed . unfortunately we had to leave the earliest as another action was awaiting us in Lisaili which by the way turned epic under the full moon light . wish every one good time stay blessed and safe Mohamed

Congrats @JeromeFJ for your first partial lead and wonderful trip report that actually reminds me of @Emmanuel (writing style) your first and perfect mentor in the sand. Well done @Islam Soliman for supporting his first partial lead and experiencing the most exciting moment when someone takes the first lead of a real convoy. @Rob S you also picked the right brand - Toyota (best in reliability) that hardly fails and it's nice to see that battery waited till tarmac.

Hello Boys Today when i started i had a thought that i would be the first one to be at the meeting point, but when i reached there i could see most of the attendees where already there. once every one arrived, we were all set deflated and flagged to hit the sand . At around 5.45 AM we entered the desert intending to reach Nazwa , starting from the opposite side of mahafiz tree shades. The terrain was quite tough to navigate with numerous shrubs and concealed steps. To make matters worse the sand in the area was super soft. We had to deal with a few refusals at the beginning, and towards the mid part of the drive we were able to locate some area to attempt some ridge riding and criss crossings ..Towards the beginning of Nazwa @Daniel Rodas had an issue with his steering rack and the car was no longer fit to make it through the sand and we decided to exit him to the tarmac at nazwa. @Gaurav Soni assisted him to the road and we were all back on track. Even with several bulldozer tracks the path from Nazwa to Suweidan was significantly better. We did make use of the offered play areas and you guys were all excellent today. My objective had been to make it up to the 2nd december, but the difficulty we had in the early phase of our drive had taken up enough time. We could attempt a few bowls and sideys. But at . Around 9.15 am , @Nizam Deen car had an air intake filter issue .Once the problem was sorted out, we decided to exit at suweidan as it was already getting hot . Thank you @Michel Van Woudenberg@Nizam Deen, @Mark D @Simon Dawood, @Tom B , @Warren Flay @Daniel Rodas, @Gilbert Khalil,and @James Thorn, for being on time and you all did a wonderful job today. Thank you @Matt.T for being a vigilant 2nd lead. Thanks to @Pacific for handling the convoy from centre. Thank you @Looper for sweeping us and thanks to @Gaurav Soni for joining the drive and for all your assistance in refusals. Thank you guys once again and see you soon.some pics in the gallery

Thanks, everyone for your wholehearted support and participation in an epic Grand Iftar drive, which was much awaited after 2 years of covid gap. It was very nice to put faces to names and car pics we see in the gallery every week and an awesome outing with the whole family where kids and wifey's also enjoyed and relaxed with pleasant evening weather. Special thanks to all Advisors, Support, and Team carnity to help plan and execute all the arrangements to secure the best location to enjoy the hill-climb show and rev battle throughout the evening. Many thanks, everyone for sharing your special delicacies and sweets with utmost love and respect, that for the next Grand Iftar, I will fast for two days.

One of the best drives I’ve ever been on. As Rob says, it really showed the great team spirit that Carnity brings. Everyone came together to support each other and even though there were a few stucks and refusals, the patience and teamwork really shone through. thanks to @Islam Soliman and @JeromeFJ for leading an absolutely superb drive, to all the support crew and to every driver out yesterday. Can’t wait to get back out in the sand again. glad to hear the Prado made a speedy recovery @Rob S! American muscle to the rescue…

Thanks Dr. @M.Seidam for the nice drive. It was a great experience today and we had a lot of fun. I'm really excited to drive with you again and it was very nice to see familiar faces. Thanks @munkybizness for the sticker it looks very nice. And thank you guys @Waqas Parvez @Vaibhav for the shoveling and helping me with the stuck situation. See you all soon

Thanks team @Carnity for organizing such a wonderful event . For me It was much more than a drive and an opportunity to meet and greet with members of the club and to know the care and co-operation we share as a family . Thanks to @Gaurav @Srikumar , @Asif Hussain, @Frederic , @Hisham Masaad @M.Seidam and to every one else who joined the drive (many more names to mention..long list 😜 ) and sorry for those who missed out this grand event. It was real fun and hope to meet you guys soon. 🙏

Thank you @Islam Soliman, for sharing the drive with me today and supporting my first shared lead. It was an amazing experience to have the dunes wide open in front of me, and to draw a line for the convoy ! And a big thank you to all the Leads, Marshall’s, and Support who guided me up to this point. The area was offering various configurations, technical portions, high dunes, wide open portions with some bushes, a few trees for a break in the shade, some camels and gazelles. Very few existing tracks, no other convoy in sight, perfect conditions for exploring. After a few stucks at the beginning, (including a twisted Silverado !) and a pop out rapidly sorted, the convoy was performing really well even if some of the crests were challenging for the long trucks. We had a few deep bowls, nice ridges to ride, a few steep descends, and remote sand valleys to discover. On the way back, finding a way against the tall slip faces was challenging but all drivers were focused, avoiding to get stuck in the soft sand, and we reached the sabkha and the tarmac road without issue. Great support from @Rob S from the middle of the convoy helping in the recoveries with very clear guidance, and perfect sweep from @Imteeaz, who had the additional challenge to pass in the tracks of 3 heavy trucks. @Islam Soliman @RiaanJH @DP1011 @Pieter Potgieter @Patrick van der Loo @Rob S @Awais Zuberi @Nathan @Mark D @Imteeaz, thank you a great team spirit, and for joining that drive that was very special for me. See you soon for the next ones ! @Rob S your battery was kind enough to wait for the exit to die, perfect example of the British politeness! I hope it was sorted out without too much troubles.

@M.SeidamDoctor what a drive. Loved every single bit of it. Pace was good less refusals . Thank you for giving me the opportunity for Sweep and learning a lot. @munkybiznessAmazing CF always reaching out for support @MorshediDrove well as a SL following @M.SeidamInstructions perfectly. @AlexM @ASAD. @Karthik Raptor @Ahmad Shaker @Waqas Parvez Every one drove exceptionally well. Looking forward to see you in the sand once again

Today was the day that 100% confirmed that I picked the right group in joing Carnity. Good and clear briefing as ever from @Islam Soliman. Gym work out shoveling done early on, then into a nice rythem following the tracks setout by @JeromeFJ . Driven with you a few times now and fantastic to be in the convoy for your first shared lead. A calming voice on the radio, clear instructions and great tracks chosen. I don't often take passengers but today I had 2, so of all the days to break down today was not it. Huge thankyou to @Islam Soliman @JeromeFJ @Imteeaz @Awais Zuberi @Patrick van der Loo @Mark D for the team spirit, staying with us till we got to the main road. Thanks to @Nathan for the very humble American tow and taking my passengers back home safely! The Toyota Prado is already fixed and we look forward to seeing you all in the desert again soon!

Thank you @Islam Soliman you are an excellent leader to learn from, and always looking for the knowledge and the outcome from your drives. @JeromeFJThank you for taking the lead and making us enjoy the rest of the drive, and I hope to drive in your convoy very soon. Also the legendary @Rob S for the support and @Imteeaz for the sweep and the rest of the team. Thanks for the rest of the team for the fun drive. See you all soon

Thanks @Shaaz Sha and support team for an interesting and very technical drive. It's always nice to drive somewhere new (to me anyway) and some of the tight uphill turns on churned up soft sand were challenging to say the least! The Gods of fortune were not with us today sending us a very generous dose of breakdowns and stucks/refusals which made for slow going. Still, we got safely to the end and with the temperature climbing past 38, exiting was definitely the right thing to do. Nice to meet new faces and especially nice to follow @Tom Bin the mighty Yamato. She shook the ground and made nice deep ruts for the little Gadgero to wallow in. See you all again soon (if I can get on a drive lol)

Thank you soo much everyone. I dropped my car in the garage and got home safe. It was one of the best team to drive with, really well done to everyone.

@Shaaz Sha thanks again for this morning’s drive. It was good to have to opportunity to explore a new area with you. The terrain required our full attention; with lots of nasty little steps! @Looper @Pacific @Gaurav Soni thanks for supporting the convoy. @Daniel Rodas @Nizam Deen; hope you got home safely. @Mark D great effort considering this was your first FB+ drive. See you all on sand soon!

Thanks everyone for coming out. It was a great outing to meet with new and old faces. Will be sharing more photos in the gallery.

@Bruno Finel @Jose Thomas @KKIRAN @Sudhanva Sonawane @Rajiv Sam @Joji varghese @Gerrit Bus @Jona @eldose baby @Bhaskar Hello Everybody, Thank you for joining the drive this morning and also for being punctual. It was a beautiful morning and temperature was still good at the beginning. As planned we started the drives from Tawi Nazwa where the dunes was forgiving and appeared untouched with no tracks. Knowing that the area around Pink Rock and Big Red will be churned, i spent more time driving in the area closer to Tawi Nazwa. Eventually we moved towards Pink Rock where we took our first break. From this point until the end of the drive, we had lots of cross tracks and soft sand where we started to get some refusals and few stuck. It was amazing to see the teamwork and initiatives taken by the team to shovel. Most of the recoveries were flawlessly managed by @Rajiv Sam As pointed out in the briefing, we had to check the tyre pressure and deflate to the correct PSI to compensate the increase in the pressure due to high temperature. It was quite shocking to see the amount of cables we had to crossed during the drive and the more we were getting closer to Big Red the more cables we were encountering. It was quite challenging to avoid the cables because it was everywhere. Unfortunately, i had to cut the drive short because the my car's gear was slipping in to Neutral by itself and also i was getting hot transmission oil indication. Therefore it was safer to exit to the tarmac where there are better options than in middle of the desert. Luckily, the issue did not happen on the road when i was driving to the garage. I would like to thank everyone for your understanding and cooperation. Huge Thanks to @Rajiv Sam for being an amazing centre forward, @Joji varghese for being awesome sweep and @Jose Thomas as an excellent second lead. I hope you enjoyed the drive and hope to see you soon in another drive, take care. There are few photos posted on the gallery https://carnity.com/gallery/category/1326-fewbie-tawi-nazwa-sharjah-16-apr-2022.

Fasting @Gaurav? Good mentioned, to allow for more

Our convoy was true form of desert wanderers. Explored new terrain. Though it was bit bushy, but loved overall the element of technical. Some good ridge riding and crossing. @Daniel Rodas timely exit, good decision and saved untimely exit of @Nizam Deen . Hope no major 💲💵💶💷💱. Thanks @Shaaz Sha @Looper @Gaurav Soni @Matt.T Had fun, hope to join you guys again . Stay safe and blessed.

Well, we didn’t find any bunnies this morning. What we did found was a group of enthusiasts that were eager to explore some nice virgin areas of Qudra and beyond. Throughout the drive we were able to keep a good pace and only had a handful of refusals, and some excellent self recovery skills by @Yaseen87 and wonderful support from @Anoop Nair. All of you drove very well today ! After having enjoyed the Qudra area, we crossed the road into Al Hathmah and the plan was to make this drive into a nice loop where we would exit at the Love Lakes. Unfortunately @Thian his Jeep hit a bump somewhere after coming off a dune which resulted in an overheating issue shortly after and upon opening the bonnet we noticed the cooling fluid was almost entirely gone and the engine bay was covered in pink coolant. The only option was to disengage the electronic parking brake with the engine off (we had to check in the operator manual), and tow the car out back to the road. As we were on the last part of the drive, we all exited together. I wanted to thank you all for the great drive this morning and the support from all of you ! @Thian i hope the damage is not to severe and you can join us soon again. Take care and enjoy the rest of the weekend !

When you see the leaders cars in liwa crossing drive 💪💪💪 @Gaurav @Frederic @Srikumar

@Hisham MasaadThank you for the amazing fast drive today, really enjoyed, Great to meet all old friends and new mates.