Patrol 4

Today I spent the whole day on patrol filling the duty of an extra rifleman for MOT E. We drove off the map a little, but otherwise it was a good day. Besides, driving off the map is part of the point with road recce. Our MOT's have had their share of bad luck recently. MOT D has had a flat tyre twice this week, and flipped a care on its side once last week. Earlier MOT E had a collision and three cases of engine trouble. Today we fortunately had none of that.

In the evening practically all activity stopped for the duration of the football game between Germany and England. Germany won with 4 goals against 1, although it should have been 4-2. Auf Wiedersehen, Engländer!


We drove most of the way in a deep and wide dry river bed, or wadi.


Higher up the wadi was narrower and steeper. There was a flock of 600 sheep looking for some shade. To the left, their shepherd dog can be seen. We tried to give it some water, but it was afraid of us.


The donkeys of a remote village were taking it easy in the dust.