Wilder Thing, mellow evening
Posted in Balu River, BBC Boats, river, sunset, Wilder Thing on Nov 26th, 2011
A mellow evening cruise up-river on the Wilder Thing
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Ekushey, on the river
Posted in BBC Boats, boat, river, Sunflower, Wilder Thing on Feb 21st, 2011
It is 21st [EKUSHEY] Feb – the Language Movement Day. On this day in 1952 Bangladesh began its movement to get their Bengali language to replace Urdu as the official language of the country. A holiday today, and it turned out to be a nice cool morning – perfect weather to be out on the [...]
Boats, and green fields
Posted in Balu River, BBC Boats, boat, Peacock, repair, river, Sunflower, Wilder Thing on Feb 4th, 2011
Out to assist survey one of the 3 country boats belonging to the “Bangladesh Boats Consortium”. Drove out to a small village on the east of Tongi, where the “Wilder Thing” has been pulled out of the water for her annual maintenance and repair work, the fog was lifting and the sun was already up. [...]
Big river big view
Posted in Bangladesh, river on Jul 28th, 2010
Had lost track of a series of aerial photos taken in July 2008 of the Bangladesh delta during a flight from Bangkok to Dhaka. Just found them. The view of the massive rivers and the silt delta was amazing. Difficult form me to capture the visual impact in a photo but here is my best [...]
Morning out on the Peacock
Posted in Balu River, boat, Peacock, river on Jun 26th, 2010
25th June Bunch of us went out early morning on the Peacock from Tolna, stopped off at Ullukhola Market and hired this contraption of a three-wheeled “motor-van” to go explore the 2 old 17th century Portuguese Churches in Nagori and Motbari. One other old church that I had visited in 2007 I could not locate this [...]
Evening on the Sunflower
Posted in Balu River, Bangladesh, boat, farewell, river, Sunflower on Jun 20th, 2010
A lovely evening aboard the Sunflower on the Balu River outside of Dhaka city. A few nice friends, great food and drink, super cool breeze and a magical evening – low billowy clouds, then a pale but pretty sunset, and finally the moon lighting the way….