Up the creek - with a wing engine

Tiger Balm on Tour
Gordon Millar & Colette Mullins
Wed 6 Apr 2011 02:36
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Entered the Kinabatangan Northern tributary the Mamuyon at 1000 this morning and promptly touched bottom on a sand bar.  Fortunately it was soft sand and we didn't stop - we cut trhrough it an out the other side.  Lesson learned - don't cut corners in maeandering rivers.  We are now motoring on the wing engine at 3 knots to avoid scaring away the wild life - so far we have seen a spectacularly coloured bird - and lots of jungle.
 
Will be up here for 2 or 3 days - plan to sail about 30 miles upstream........