Saturday 20 February 2010

We were asked by the manager if we wanted to eat however they only had shrimps on the menu so no good for Abigail and Bradley, I think you probably have to book in advance. Before leaving we took a look at the lodges, they were situated between the mangroves and overlooking the river with there own little jetty. Although basic they looked very clean well worth a nights stay. They also do boat trips on the Bintang Bolon river and only last week they said they had some dolphins in the estuary. We walked out towards the village jetty hoping to find somewhere to eat our picnic lunch. Immediately we were surrounded by about twenty children all wanting to talk to us. They continued to follow us down a track passing a huge mound of empty oyster shells which then came to a dead end so we had to backtrack. They then offered to show us the crocodile pool so we followed them through the village to the pool which was practically dried up and had no sign of any crocodiles. As we headed back to the car I was greeted warmly by an elderly lady who offered me some groundnuts. Back at the car and leaving the locals at the restaurant gates we made our way back down the sand track stopping on route to eat our picnic lunch before heading back home. As we were driving the car didn’t seem to be driving as it should there seemed no acelarator I had visions of us breaking down in the middle of no where. As we entered Brikama Paul took the decision to stop off at Amy’s to let the engine cool down hoping it would do the trick. Amy wasn’t at home so we called in on Anne and had a coffee and chat with her until Amy arrived back. We got back on the road to head home, still the car was playing up it looks like another job for Molah our mechanic.























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