But first we have to bring our kayaks down from the track up above and down a steep incline. That’s Azmi and Kelvin with the kayak while I’m carrying the heavy camera and paddles … *ahem*

We brought along two kayaks (one double and one single) since there were three of us. You can’t see Azmi in this picture below as he’s carrying the bow of the kayak over his head. He’s also short as well; compared to me anyway (as most people are, angmohs included).

Finally we got the kayaks and our gear down and we eagerly get ready to set out!

We got on the waters, went past under a rickety old bridge and we entered another realm ...

We heard noises and as we round the bend we saw some children whom we thought were smoking as we saw smoke but were instead playing with fire crackers! Its funny how the playing of fire crackers normally associated with Chinese New Year is now ‘adopted’ by other races celebrating all festivals!

Kelvin successfully going through the rapids and happily taking photos of us after that.

This dead small tree has fallen across the river creating an obstruction hazard so we decided to clear it.

But little do we know that more obstructions await us along the way! And this time it was bamboos – but we haven’t seen bamboos yet! More on this later ...

Though pretty to look at, bamboo can be a real hazard on the waters if one is not careful. The least of which is that you can get 'whipped' by the small overhanging ones as the water pushes your kayak through them or at the worst you can get yourself impaled by the larger jutting ones that may had snapped off. Nasty! As you can understand now, we have a lot of respect for the bamboos!

As I said, bamboos are really pretty and so I took a few snaps before we pushed off again.

End of Part 1. Adventures to be continued ... (when the author gets over the holiday seasons lethargy)

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