Daily Photo – Selamat Datang

February 23, 2013
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The shack on the landing is a fuel depot for the longboats of the community. What I still fund curious is that 'Slow Down' is written in English. I only ever saw locals driving boats on the rivers. Maybe they determined 'Melambatkan' wouldn't fit in large enough letters to be visible until it was too late. Or maybe they determined it was only English reading explorers that were speeding on the rivers.

Daily Photo – Soon Hong No. 7

February 22, 2013
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Just like those bigger riverboats, the Soon Hong No. 7 carried a spare drive shaft and propeller. I still don't know how they would have gone about changing that mid-river.

Daily Photo – Log Jam

January 26, 2013
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This is all well and good until a log escapes. You might not be able to see it in the image below, but at 100% you can see there is a cable that runs down the outside of both sides of the log raft. Dead center of the photo there are two men in a small boat trying to push a log that has slipped outside the cable back into the raft.

Daily Photo – Batam Barang Riverboats

January 25, 2013
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Three riverboats sit at the jetty near the mouth of the Batam Barang in Sarawak. With the survey over and the equipment shipped out from Kuala Belait, I had some…