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Unfortunately I have some unavoidable guests coming home that afternoon🥺. Hence I have vacated the slot. Hope someone else has a great time with shooting.

@Kailas where did you get those Quick Fists - amazon or somewhere else? What size is it for the shovel?

I didn’t know that I had already subscribed to your channel on YouTube. Was pleasantly surprised to see the video in my feed. It is a wonderfully done video. I am glad 😀 could help 😂

It was a great drive for me. Learnt a lot, but also realized need to learn a lot more. In these Intermediate drives all the chinks in my driving get exposed and helps practice on them. It seemed to me that I don’t have a good control over my steering. Sometimes I oversteer, and loose control over the car. I am not experienced enough to blame the car so it is perhaps me. That was the reason I slipped out of the crests a few times. And had double pop out. Thanks to @Gaurav, @Shaaz Sha, @DANIEL NOGUEIRA and @Mukundan Nair for the help in recovering. After the drive my compressor gave up and died on the last tire, it did not even fill them fully. I had to pressure up again at the fuel pump. It had been making noises and I had already planned for a compressor upgrade tomorrow. On my way back I had wobble in my steering. And after unsuccessfuly trying to catch up to the afternoon drive with @Foxtrot Oscar, which I narrowly missed. I took the car to a fuel station tyre shop to clean the tyre. I asked them to redo the wheel alignment as well for both the tyres and they are fine now. Thank you again all for this wonderful drive. I wish for a speedy recovery for @Srikumar get well soon.

I couldn’t help myself but come and try to see if the convoy is still there & I missed you guys by a min. Can see you leaving. Have a good drive. I would take 10 odd min to deflate etc, and did not want to delay the drive anymore. I took a lot of time to inflate my tires. Also my Compressor gave up on the last tyre in my previous drive. Which took a lot more time. A time for new compressor tomorrow.

Looks like I will not be able to make it today. There’s is a wobble in my steering wheel due to tyre pop out in morning session, so have to get it checked.

I and @Ilya Golubinsky are at the morning intermediate drive. Hopefully we will make it directly from here. 🤞

Congratulations @DANIEL NOGUEIRA!

Please place me in the waitlist for a 2nd drive.

Last week when I was here at Al Faqaa, I got refusals almost on every turn. Got crested on the same dunes twice and dig myself in bowls whenever I stopped. And today Faqaa had nothing on me. Oh! except one time I got crested just because my companions asked me to stop on the crest so that they can have a good view of @Mikhail Lukichev's recovery. I think (though not as a norm) refusals sometimes are matter of dumb luck working against one; and on the day one faces refusals, irrespective of how well one is driving and other days it is in favor and one can get away with some silly mistakes. I had a lots and lots of practice riding on the ridge on Friday morning with @Pancho and today I put what I learnt to work. We were quite lucky initially - and all the refusals could be self recovered and we drove like magic. But on the 2nd leg of the day we went a bit sideways and had few crested cars mine included. It was a wonderful drive for me and had lots of fun driving in the afternoon into the evening sun. A big thanks to @Craig Finlayson for helping me. Also the customary thanks go to @Tamas Hoffmann and @Desert Dweller for officiating the drive. See you all again soon!

@Francois Germishuys I think you might be able to get a spot in Pancho's drive if you are interested

Congratulations @Tamas Hoffmann

Congratulations @Pancho!

Congratulations @Vanessa8580!

@Mikhail Lukichev I will primarily bring Nikon Z6 with 24mm 1.8 Z series. I will try to bring rest of my kit as well which is mostly geared toward Portrait, travel and Street photography consisting mostly of primes and kit lens.

Please waitlist me for the 2nd drive of the week.