As we cruised along the Li river, near Guilin in china, we passed this boat sitting high and dry out of the water.
Clearly the river was relatively low as the sprouting growth on the rock river banks testify. At the same time, that the banks are rocky and not muddy suggests that when the river does flood, either it's flowing fast or it's not carrying much sediment.
I'm still wondering how they got the boat onto these blocks. Were the blocks positioned and the boat floated onto them as the water receded after the last flood, or was the boat jacked up onto the blocks? Under the aft of the boat you can see some more traditional boat yard dry dock supports.
I've a feeling that the people seen here were living on the boat. You have the laundry hanging on the pole, the two women doing more laundry and perhaps most tellingly you have the pink fabric item in the open window of the aft superstructure. Well, maybe calling it a ‘superstructure' is being overly generous.
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