One of the oldest descriptions of Oman’s coast is from the ‘Periplus of the Erithian Sea’ which describes the southern coast, improbably for an Arabian land, as being “wrapped in thick clouds and fog”.
So it was today, as I woke early for yet another once in a century, or so, event – the Transit of Venus.
Transit of Venus Sun above Qantab
To try and get above the clouds on Muscat’s coast I ascended a mountain and waited; until, like Gloriana, the sun appeared through a gap in the clouds and Venus was revealed as a tiny silhouette on the suns face.
Transit of Venus from Oman
