One of the things you can do in Qatar is being invited by someone to a boat BBQ on a Friday afternoon. Luckily we got the chance to join some people who exactly did and organised that.

We met after noon at the harbour and entered the boat, an Arabic dhow, big enough to carry at least 30 people. Although the weather didn't look good, it started to rain and a thunder storm came up, we left the harbour to go on our journey.


Passing the newly opened Museum of Islamic Art, we reached the Doha bay and went direction north east. Just in front of the west bay area with all the big towers lies banana island, an undevelopped piece of land within the gulf, just a small island with nothing on it besides some sunshades.

Reaching the island we let go anchor as some other dhows already did.



Then it was time for some guys to jump from the upper deck and to swim in the sea. And this in the beginning of December. Some others decided to go on a speed boat trip around the island while we just enjoyed the sun on the upper deck with a good drink.



Later then, after sunset, we started preparing the BBQ. Chicken, lamb and beef shish kebabs as well as chicken parts found their way to be roasted. And there were a lot of hungry people!



After having finished the BBQ we eventually went back to the harbour and home, that was around 9pm. A nice possibility to spend half a day.