Sekonyer River
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sat 1 Oct 2016 22:47
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The Sekonyer
River
  We left the main Kumai River for the
much narrower Sekonyer River, proboscis monkeys everywhere.
 Our
‘welcome’.
 Bear showing our ‘front row seats’ of our
klotok.
  The map shows where we are in the
Tanjung Puting National
Park, the Sekonyer River marking the ‘top’
border.
Wiki
says: Sekonyer
is a river in southern Borneo.
Part of the river traverses the Tanjung Puting National
Park.
Travel on the river is often done by klotok,
an Indonesian riverboat. The river includes orangutan habitat. The river
is brown and murky. Gold mining takes place along it. It is a
tributary of the Kumai
River, and is fed by the Camp
Leakey River.
 Being overtaken
by a Klotok.
 Very pretty and thankfully so many
trees (the area is under constant threat from the palm oil business
during burn-off).
     Before we turned sharp right into Camp Leakey River we saw
where the brackish water meets
fresh.
 The river supports the local villages providing transport and food.
 This chap was having to bail as he
went.
  A quaint scene as a lady crosses the
river.
 A park rangers home.
  This chap (and most of his kind)
like to sleep beside the river where the air is slightly cooler and it’s
slightly easier to breathe through the contraption they call a nose. Honk
through their beak – the bigger the nose, the louder the honk, something a girl
looks for. Snore.......we’ll have to wait and listen.
 Now, it’s time to find somewhere to
park for the night.
ALL IN ALL A LOVELY MEANDER REAL JUNGLE TREAT |