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Dear Desertnauts "A Spice harvester (also called a “crawler”) is a large, heavy, mobile factory designed to harvest Melange. It is dropped by carrier ships (known as carryalls) onto Spice fields. These machines would then harvest and process the Spice from the sand of the desert floor. This immense farming mechanism are used solely on Arrakis, as it is the only known source of Spice before the Tleilaxu developed a substitute." Hence, in the second installment of the Planet Arrakis drives, we'll immediately go in search of the Spice Fields, which we'll encounter, with their typical circle shape, a few minute into the drive. After reaching this, as essentially our starting point. we'll double back toward our two other waypoints: Ghaf Bowl, and Nagrah Dune. We'll stop at each and refresh ourselves. The final segment of the drive will take us toward the Sheik Khalifa Houbara breeding center, the big farm fenced in to look like an angular shape of Africa. It should be another medium to long-range drive, hence we'll spend more time finding the best lines to navigate, and less looking for playgrounds, granted the fact that the terrain will provide plenty of challenges and variety. The convoy order will be, once again, designed to provide a mini tutorial, with each Fewbie Plus being "guided" by a higher rank member, and all our Support Team members evenly spread throughout the convoy, to make sure all goes well throughout the drive: @Benje_Junior in Second Lead @Giacomo at #3 @nithish468 at #4 @Cesar Chacon at #5 @Bjoern at #6 and Center Forward @Jessica Lambert at #7 @ChrisW at #8 @Nizar Shawwa at #9 @Glenn W at #10 @Senthil Kumar at #11 and Center Back @Aser at #12 @Hani crest king at #13 and @Luke K P in Sweep Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow with the goal of being ready to go at a comfortable 8:30 AM. Have a good Saturday evening.

Dear Desert Wanderers, @frederic demolder, @Zsolt, @Warbs, @Steffi, @Kirill K, @Mark B, @Shary, @Krinesh, @Hashem Rihan, @Gary F, Firstly thank you all for joining todays drive on time, this makes a great start to the drive as it allows us to get away sharp and on time. The Al Farah desert always throws challenges at us no matter what time of year, it is a great learning desert in my opinion as it has some soft powdery sand, some nice ridges (not that we used them for cross overs or ridge riding today, that will come ) but we did practice some up and overs and some sideys, and trust me when I say you all drove amazingly well covering an incredible 37 km's well done to you all. We did manage to meet up with convoy two at the Desert fox rock formation (not actually sure it has a name, but it does now lol. this was great as we were able to meet old and new friends (pics in the gallery). Then we headed off to teh exit at Sweihan where we encountered a couple of last minute stucks but nothing a bit of shovelling did not fix. I hope you all had fun, moreover, had a learning experience, not only for your own abilities, but also what you car is and is not capable of. A big thank you to my second lead @frederic demolder fantastic job following instructions and smoothing my track out, thank you and well done. And a big thank you to my support team @Mark B in CF and @Gary F sweeping us today, I could not have done it with out you guys so a big thank you from me, you guys make my life easy and it is a comfort knowing you are back there keeping everyone safe and sound. great job guys and appreciated. I have put a small Relive video below and some stats from todays drive https://www.relive.cc/view/vrqowBjeeKq have a great rest of your weekend 😃 hope to see you all in the sand again soon

Good morning All ! @Mohit Gurnani@Sam Selim@Frederic118@karim hamandi@Abhishek Chikara@Michael asir@essam ibrahim@Srikumar@Arvindraj@Tanveer Ahmed@Zubail@Ben Lee@Amr J@Juan R@Jeandre Bezuidenhout Please find your convoy positions attached for tomorrow. We will be using Channel 4 - 446.081Mhz Please arrive a bit before 7 so you have time to deflate and set up your flag. We should be briefed and on the move by 7:15. As it's a sizeable convoy, the plan will be a mixture of smooth rolling dunes and some technical areas. Surely it will be fun See you tomorrow !

Dear friends, @Rob S, @Haneef Thayyil, @J-P L, @khlief, @Zak_, @Ishak, @Sandeep N, @Deepak Eswar, @Alphin Aloor, @Amir Amiri, @Imteeaz I hope you are excited and ready for tomorrow's drive. As always emphasized and required that everyone make sure that their car is in a perfect shape and have all the gears as per their rank. Meeting Point: https://goo.gl/maps/ZPJvvCKqYmfuxvqN9 Meeting time is 7:00 AM Sharp We will use Carnity Radio Channel 3. The convoy order will be as the following:

Was a nice fast drive with @Looper and @Sherry Jacob along with @Vanessa8580 and all others. Special thanks goes to "nanny" @Jessica Lambert who was the super sweep today. Was a fun day for the kids.

Thnks a lot @Davie Smooth_Operator and the whole Team for the great drive & company! Have a lovely weekend!

Thanks a lot @Davie Smooth_Operator & the supporting team for the amazing smooth drive..very nice Video

Such a great drive and I love the video recap. Thanks all for a fun morning in the sand. Have a great rest of your weekend.

@Frederic ill be on Yukon

I am looking forward to my first official IM drive. Gaurav you had already given me a taste of IM in Liwa last year. 🥳👻

Welcome dune surfers! @Gautam Banka @Anoop Nair @Mahmut @Brett Eicher @Cristian @Ishak @Mario Cornejo @Alexanderrr @Beide Worku @Waqaɾ to the IM drive. Please check the drive post for the Meeting point. the convoy order is as below: we will be using channel 9 : 446.20625 I will share the plan during our briefing. See you all at 6.45 am. incase of any emergency, you can text me on 0585827986 @Gautam Banka you made it !

Unfortunately a third of my household have decided to get sick so I am being told I have to stay home tomorrow. Have a great drive guys 🥲