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JENNY
Alan Franklin/ Lynne Gane
Thu 30 Oct 2008 01:11
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Hello All
We have just arrived in Karamantan (Borneo) after a
pretty windless crossing from Bali,we are about 30nm up the river from the coast
at a place called Kumai apart from it being a dry town it is very third worldish
and very poor but its what we came to see which is one of the reasons we choose
to travel the world this way its certainly not the cost but it certainly is an
adventure.
Sitting here on the river its wall to wall jungle
coming up here at high tide we were down to 1.3 m under the keel it's masses I
know but one of the boats went aground for several hours not pleasant in this
monsoon type weather 4" in one hour fell yesterday.
We are going further into the interior tomorrow to
see the Orang-utans which is why we are here,the reports so far are very good.We
should also see alot of birds ,monkeys and other wild life.
That's all for now expect more when we have seen
the big Apes
All aboard Jenny
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