The trail we were following to get to our bat flight viewing experience ran close to the cliff edge in places as you can see in the photo below, of a longboat heading downriver.
I'm looking almost straight down into this longboat. There are four people in it. A man at the bow, another at the stern and two women in the middle. The two women have a suitcase each, the red one being very obvious. I wonder how sharp this image would be it I took it today with my Canon 5D Mark II and an ‘L' series auto-focus lens with image stabilization. That's because this was shot on 100 ISO slide file using a Canon T90 and most likely a zoom at 300mm and not an ‘L' series lens at that.
In the shadow on the far bank, the longboat heading downriver has just passed a small jetty. That's how I know this one is heading downriver, because the bow of the boat tied up at the jetty is facing the other way.
I wondered where the women were going. It was too late to get to Long Terawan by nightfall so my guess is they were headed to a longhouse or other settlement not quite so far away and maybe continuing on in the morning. Of course, they could have had some form of light but I don't recall traffic on the rivers at night.
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