Me and Bamboo (the tour guide)
January 1st, 2016
I slept very well last night, dozing off to the sounds of the jungle. When I woke up the following morning, I opened the tent screen to find a half-eaten piece of fruit on my door mat. I looked at it puzzled and a groundskeeper cleaning sweeping the walkway saw me looking at it. He pointed and said it was from a bat. I guess I slept through a bat eating his meal. Then again, it was probably perched above and dropped it.
After breakfast we headed out to see the mangroves – the area where the river meets the ocean. Our trip would start with a van to the speedboat, a speedboat to a junk where we would kayak into the mangroves. I have to admit, I have never kayaked before. I have used the rowing machine at the gym but have never kayaked or rowed a boat,. I had no idea that if you wanted to go left, you paddled on the right. I had a hard time getting the hang of it. It seemed counter intuitive and once we got going, my instinct of padding on the side of the direction you wanted to go kicked in and we would end up landing in the branches/roots of the mangrove. Sophon was pretty good about it but at the end said he would not go kayaking with me again.
We had lunch on the junk as we headed out to sea where we would stop at a deserted island – A perfect place for a nap!
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