Half Moon Bay
Crescent-shaped shallow Gulf bay with soft sand beaches, salt flats, low dunes and calm water.
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This guide to Half Moon Bay near Khobar, in the Dammam area of Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, starts with a puzzle early twentieth-century dhow crews knew well: why sail into a salt-water bay to stock up on fresh water. It then reads the bay as something built, by shifting seas, a rising peninsula, salt flats and drifting dunes. Along the way come salt cargoes bound for Africa and India, and a large uninvited visitor from the late nineteen-sixties. Best heard at the water's edge, looking out across the curve of the bay.
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