Field trip to Hanging Gardens (collect fox photos)

The morning after Bill and Brien set up two cameras on Jebel Qatarra, the group organized a field trip the the Hanging Gardens to collect the cameras and to visit some of the archaeological sites below the escarpment face.

Click here to see photos of the fox. Click here to see a summary of the events recorded.

The group in the parking lot below the Hanging Gardens	Mike Gillett (right) leading the group up the ridge	The line of members making their way to the first rest stop	Hiking along the narrow trail to the Hanging Gardens
The night before, the soft sand had been levelled; small mammal tracks are visible in the sand	Making our way through the boulder field at the base of the escarpment	One of the insects collected amid the vegetation at the base of the escarpment	Our recording device indicating 30 "events" recorded at the Camera One location
Remains of a large house or perhaps animal pen; marked now with urine stain from one of the mountain's feral donkeys	Low walls of one of the many 'bait khaimah' scattered along the plateau below the escarpment	Classic construction of mountain house used throughout Hajar mountains for past 1000 years or more	Small grave in one of the cemeteries located on the plateau
One of the group scrambling onto the large boulders for 'the perfect picture'	The view from one of the settlement areas to the gravel plain below, Al Ain (Foha) in the distance	An adult, Islamic grave near the settlements	Meter stick between headstone and footstone of a grave in a large cemetery
An earlier grave design with an oval of stone marking the grave	A small shelter built recently beside 'the rabbit'; evidence suggests the occupant was using a snare to catch falcons	The view from the shelter to the area where the lure and trap line were found	Members making their way carefully down the slope from the plateau
A temporary -- shepherd's ? -- shelter located at lower elevation	One of the graves located in the area of the parking lot (this grave and others have now been destroyed by bulldozing)	Another of the graves located in the area near the parking lot (this grave and others have now been destroyed by bulldozing)