http://www.sailblogs.com/member/whistledown Copyright 2010 SailBlogs.com Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:42:43 -0600 720 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:42:43 -0600 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en support@sailblogs.com support@sailblogs.com http://www.sailblogs.com/images/sb_rss_icon.gif http://www.sailblogs.com/ 88 31 Weblogs for Sailors and Sailing http://www.sailblogs.com/member/whistledown?xjMsgID=117251 <img src='http://www.sailblogs.com/member/whistledown/images/img_2082-1_scale.jpg'><br />Malaysia &nbsp;(<a href='http://www.sailblogs.com/member/whistledown?xjMsgID=117251'>Continued...</a>) Dave Hot Sunny again : ) Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:42:43 -0600 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/whistledown?xjMsgID=117251 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/whistledown?xjMsgID=108816 <img src='http://www.sailblogs.com/member/whistledown/images/kumai_river_fest_scale.jpg'><br />After 2 nights at sea we approached the Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) coast but could see nothing of it due to the smoke haze and the low lying nature of the coastline. Even in the Kumai estuary we could see none of the coast. It took us most of the day travelling up the estuary to reach the start of the Kumai river where we were glad to anchor in a shallow bay as the trip up river to the town was 11 miles and we were not prepared to do this in failing light. Some of our friends were already in the town and radioed to tell us of a bus tour laid on by the local government and was leaving at 8am the following morning . We awoke at 6am and resigned ourselves to missing the tour as it would take us 2.5 hours to travel up the river, anchor and then get ashore, the tide was also against us. I then realised that with the 2day journey from Bali to Borneo we had changed time zones and the local time was actually 5am; we had an extra hour up our sleeves. The diesel engine on WdtW has never worked as hard, pushing us up river against the outgoing current, it is said that diesel engines like to be pushed hard and ours certainly got its wish for a few hours. We arrived a little after 8 am, performed the quickest anchoring ever and jumped into a passing dinghy to get to the bus just as it was about to leave. We were taken to a town 30mins drive away to see the annual river festival where all the locals dress up their boats and file past the Regent - we were again guests of honour and welcomed by the local dayak tribes people who danced in our honour, Jean as always likes to join in the dancing and was encouraged to do so. We were seated alongside the regent and his entourage and had a great view of the event which was full of fun and colour, well worth the effort to see.&nbsp;(<a href='http://www.sailblogs.com/member/whistledown?xjMsgID=108816'>Continued...</a>) Dave cloudy Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:27:30 -0600 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/whistledown?xjMsgID=108816 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/whistledown?xjMsgID=104515 <img src='http://www.sailblogs.com/member/whistledown/images/rice_fields_scale.jpg'><br />Indonesia Part 2&nbsp;(<a href='http://www.sailblogs.com/member/whistledown?xjMsgID=104515'>Continued...</a>) Dave Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:25:04 -0500 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/whistledown?xjMsgID=104515