Daily Photo – Tutoh River Taxi

Daily Photo – Tutoh River Taxi
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Clearly the boat had seen better days. The windshield and side glass had long since disappeared. I wondered if in fact they had been plexiglass that had turned yellow and opaque. Note also that there is no-one steering up front! As you'll see in tomorrow's photo, even this wire and pulley arrangement was no longer in service, the steering mechanism having been superseded again. But despite the engineering modifications, the boat floated and it got the job done.

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Daily Photo – Log Jam

Daily Photo – Log Jam
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This is all well and good until a log escapes. You might not be able to see it in the image below, but at 100% you can see there is a cable that runs down the outside of both sides of the log raft. Dead center of the photo there are two men in a small boat trying to push a log that has slipped outside the cable back into the raft.

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Daily Photo – Batam Barang Riverboats

Daily Photo – Batam Barang Riverboats
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Three riverboats sit at the jetty near the mouth of the Batam Barang in Sarawak. With the survey over and the equipment shipped out from Kuala Belait, I had some…

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Daily Photo – Urban Renewal

Daily Photo – Urban Renewal
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Since posting yesterday's photo I've been poring over Google Maps of Kuala Lumpur trying to figure out where I took the photos. I recall I ate at the Station Hotel the night I was there and that I walked, so the put me somewhere in Chinatown.

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Daily Photo – Moved to No. 9

Daily Photo – Moved to No. 9
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I didn't have a KL agenda, I was just passing through. One night in a doss house then a bus to Singapore. KL back in 1989 was under construction and that's what the image below shows - a string of shop fronts, the last vestiges of a trading street like the one I shot in Penang, being torn down for modern edifices in concrete, steel and glass.

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