MAXIMUM MUSANDAM
MY EYES SQUINT UNDER the brilliant sun, trying to focus on something moving on the horizon. We’re cruising on a wooden dhow on the Strait of Hormuz, the inlet of water separating Oman from Iran. Before I know it, the distant creatures on the horizon have become co-travellers—scores of dolphins are now swimming alongside our boat. Indo-Pacific humpback and bottlenose dolphins delightfully porpoise in the waters as I am reminded by the boat’s captain to not give in to the temptation of reaching out and touching them. As they swim swiftly in the cerulean waters, I have to constantly remind myself: these are dolphins,
