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Campsite at Night

Lingnan photo: Thousands of South Australia gray dolphins frequent the night sea fishing row

Early August to mid-September last, was listed as China’s second-class protection of wild animals, gray dolphins, frequent sprint county of East Guangdong Le door Islands Penghu Islands to the south along the sea-light lure fishing night fishing ground, night usually occurs the number of gray dolphins, clusters up to 600 or so, and reached the peak of more than 1500, which shows scenes different styles downtown spectacle of dolphin fish wins.

    Today, the sea returned to South Australia just after the production of the new rural old fisherman Huangzhai Town LI Yu told reporters: “The sheer number of dolphins gather dust, duration of stay offshore, my fishing career 30 years ago is not see. ”

    More than a month, after the county of South Australia and other places more than 10 boats machine Huangzhai Town ship, the island at the southern tip of South Australia, Le door Islands, South Penghu Islands offshore fish farms along the light trap night sea fishing operations, constantly being attacked gray dolphins interference, they come almost every night snatch small cluster lamp net fish up to nearly 20 groups, formed from 30 to 50 more than the crowd.

    Particularly in late August and early September, typhoon “Talim” across the Taiwan Strait after the last ten days, it is the peak gray dolphins together. Night, in groups and fishermen compete for catches of gray dolphins are more than 1500. Times people are interested, the state protection of wildlife dolphins are not fish when small groups to join the ranks of snatch.

    In this last ten days time, when night fell, fishermen have started the implementation of lighting systems light trap fish trap on a large number of Palestinian wave (scientific name blue garden?), Regardless of fish (species of Sardinella aurita) and tuna fish When a small cluster of fish, known as marine mammals, “Wizard,” said the gray dolphins, which are often seasonal sprint to.

    These gray dolphins are usually more than one hundred only form a cluster, around one night sea fishing vessels, fish can practice their wins, they sometimes sneak into the sea, the upper and lower churn prey fish, and sometimes cross red sea, stretched out that very large I split the fish eaten in panic. In case of large fishing nets to live fish, they will often be half the body or body above water, fierce with the tail fin splashing into the water, circling around the net, always chasing flutter slip through the net, which makes surface waves in a row, silver belt roads, high waves splash, vast expanse, is fun.

    Sometimes, a group of dolphins attack, the fishermen have had to turn off lighting system suspended lure fish to avoid the trouble that they won the fish of the sea forces, who do not have to special fishing and hunting laws driving two Chinese wildlife gray dolphins.

    Night, South Australia more than 10 fishing vessels operating lights lure the fish, located in radius of 1000 square km of fishing grounds, fishermen have radio communication with the sea conditions from time to time love fish, but also free to talk to a surprise attack from the gray dolphin case, that almost all the fishing boats at the same time by their interference, and therefore determined to fishermen also measured the gray sea of dolphins row the night the number of clusters.

    Gray whale dolphin is a kind of family, belonging to the taxonomy dolphin, dolphins are gray. Its length up to 400-430 cm, the body color are basically gray, the unique physical characteristics, makes one to recognize its true colors. Gray dolphins mainly small cuttlefish and small clusters of fish as prey, and good choices better water quality, feeding more species-rich habitats of the marine environment.

    In recent years, South Australia in the successful creation of the county, “China’s national ecological demonstration zone” in the efforts to establish international and domestic five types of nature reserves, built up over 60 km of ecological farming belt, strong proliferation of fishery resources and releasing conscientiously implement the ban on the crack down on electric fish, fried fish, and fish and other illegal activities, so that the county’s six year-round fishing and water quality of coastal waters met the Chinese national first class water quality standards, up to more than 7,000 kinds of marine species for the creation of a good gray dolphins, the marine environment suitable for survival, coupled with the South Australian coastal waters this summer has been a small cluster of fish, sea fish flood Wong-fat, and thus lead to gray dolphins frequently come to form a cluster in the large number of long duration rare sight.

Night In Satun

My Mercedes is waiting. The sun beams diffusely down through the moisture laden air causing beads of sweat to drip continuously on my already drenched t-shirt. I am going to Satun and the Mercedes is a classic well kept 1962 model. In fact there is a whole fleet of Mercedes waiting to take tourist to Satun from Hai Jai in Southern Thailand. They are all black with an exaggerated curved body indicative of automobiles of the late 50′s. And believe it or not, they still retain the comfort that Mercedes is famous for.

The year is 1998 and I am going to the Andaman Sea in the Straits of Malacca. There I will plant myself for two weeks on one of the many somewhat deserted islands that dot this reclusive part of the world. A world inhabited by pirates and honeymooners in the Koh Tarutao National Park system in the very south of Southern Thailand.

Which island I am going to, I don’t know, but I am not the only one. Sharing my taxi ride is a young couple in love from Germany and a family from Thailand, husband and wife with their 5 year old son.

It takes about twenty minutes for the taxi driver to stuff everyone’s belongings into the trunk. I have made substantial purchases of deliciously fresh dried fruits and filled my water container with pomegranate juice from one of the ‘made for tourist’ vendors surrounding the taxi. We squeeze into tightly together; the family and myself in the rear of the taxi and the couple from Germany in the front and prepare for a long and fascinating journey.

“Are you comfortable” the driver asks in broken English.

I answer like an excited kid, “Let’s get this rocket rolling.”

My feelings were of excitement and anticipation and I don’t know why I said such a strange thing. No one else said anything and I felt as if my words were still echoing in the silence minutes later. But no matter, here I am in the middle of the world, on an adventure that relatively few have gone before.

The journey takes 3 hours of driving through exotic and undeveloped country side; incidentally through a warm and friendly Islamic side of Thailand. At one point we passed two foreigners on bicycles pedaling in racing uniforms. Later they caught up to us in some remote village on the way as we were stopping for refreshment. They came up next to our taxi and said with a heavy European accent “hello?” I answered, “Wow! I can’t believe this! What are you doing way out here in the middle of nowhere on bicycles?”

The young man in his twenties answered, “We are traveling around the world. We are on our way to Indonesia.” The other couple traveling in the taxi with me immediately took notice and a very long and interesting conversation ensues between all of us.

It turns out that the bicyclists are a married couple and the last county they pedaled through was Myanmar. After Indonesia, they planned to cycle the islands of Hawaii and then to Mainland USA.

To this day I still have dreams of that encounter and the miraculous and dangerous journey they were taking. I have never heard of them since and have no idea what became of them.

Before we know it, the taxi driver is honking his horn for us to return and we are saying our goodbyes to this marvelous couple. We pile into the taxi for the last leg of our journey. Looking out the window we pass fields of coconut palms, women balancing wood or foods in baskets on their heads wearing colorful loose clothing down to their feet. The homes we pass by are often made of palm frawns or a patchwork of wood and debris. And in the fields are men and women, young and old with their ox and children tilling vegetables in the same way at their ancestors have done for thousands of years.

Finally we reach Satun. I don’t know what to expect. The town is about two blocks long; a fishing village whose main street leads right to the ocean. There fishing boats made of old rotting lumber wait to take us to one of the many islands we will now select in the many makeshift tourist offices that line the street.

Each old rickety tourist office has pictures of the islands they offer and provide for a fee, the means to get their. And if you are uninformed, you will pay in advance for you accommodations. Something better to do when you arrive on the island. Occasionally an owner of one of these offices tries to get us inside by enticing us with words like ‘beautiful, exotic, cheap…’ We all walk down the main avenue looking and asking questions until each of us select our travel destination destiny.

I study all the pictures from all the offices of all the islands carefully and I choose Langkawi only 5 kilometers away from the southern tip of Tarutao Island. I pay the equivalent of approximately $7 for a round trip boat ticket and I am then led to one of the boats. The boat can fit about 4 people and sits low to the water. There is single engine propeller that is barely hangs attached to the rear of the craft. I wait about 15 minutes before we begin our three hour journey through rough and dangerous seas to the somewhat deserted and exotic island of Langkawi…

My days on the island with boa constrictors, pirates, a lost tribe of Islamic fishermen, my isolated beach cottage right on my own private beach, the couple isolated on the other side of the island studying esoteric Buddhism, the small exotic café serving daily fresh fish from the sea, the many tourist from Europe that came and went, lightening in the sky on a clear day and the marvelous skin diving in clear deep tropical sears are topics I will discuss in my next article. Stay turned.

best night life in canada?

my wife and i are going to canada for our anniversary and will be 19, so we really want to go somewhere with good night life but also a nice community. we would prefer to be within two or three hours of thousand island area where we live. Some places we have considered are kingston , montreal , ottawa, quebec, smiths falls, and (gananoque, which is only like a 30 minute drive from home). Which location would have best night life, cheap hotels within close proximity of bars and nightclubs etc all in one package. we are on a tight budget as well, about $400-$500 american dollars for two nights.

Hey night owls, anyone have any tips about the 1000 islands, I am going there on vacation in a couple days?