Dolphin Day!

We've got some seriously slow internet here in the town of Kratie...so today will be another day without pictures. We realize that it's not the same but frankly you've been a little spoiled. You may not get any for a week or so, since we'll be going deeper into the remote North of Cambodia.



Today we rented another couple of clunkers, and biked15km north of town to see the remaining Irrawady Dolphins in the Mekong River. The Mekong is quite the river. Perhaps you've heard of it. It's the largest river in south east Asia, and stretches on for nearly 5000km. It's second only to Amazon as the most biologically diverse fresh water ecosystem on the planet, and it dumps the 3rd largest amount of fresh river water into the oceans in the world. Right now it's the dry season but it still is by far the largest river we've ever seen. It's waters are very muddy, and the current is really strong, so we didn't get to swim with the dolphins.

The bike ride was really pleasant as far as scenery goes, but very uncomfortable for our butts. the bikes really were lousy. Oh well. The dolphin viewing was good. Fresh water dolphins are very shy, so it's not as though they were bumping into the boat and letting us pet them, but we did get some good views of them surfacing close by. It was a nice way to spend the morning.

The afternoon was a lazy one. We both had a nap and read our books. Tomorrow we're off to Ban Lang.