Caught again valid when I fetch a troop of monkeys on a sandbar.
Fish entice no longer being feeble.
Quickly they can peer me and the day is kind of over (other than that Thundercloud I saw forming at 3.00pm).
Damn this is a protracted system across whose concept became as soon as this?
Paddling damn exhausting to the level I became as soon as spent particularly on the break of a protracted day.
They repeat me to map across the river to the jetty as they’re on Sungai Pahang and Sungai Tembeling ends here. I’m nearly to the jetty (200 meters away) and realise its two rivers merging and one is brown no longer mine.
As I hit the dirty greater river I’m swept downstream and without warning I’m paddling with all the pieces I delight in I know I’m able to chase at 10-11kph for approximately 100 meters then I’m spent in this kayak as its valid too wide.
I chase and chase inching ahead slowly so essentially the hottest might presumably well presumably simply aloof be over 8k. The marina will get closer and closer the radio does no longer shut up. Any time I discontinuance paddling I’m swept away.
Quickly quiet water is reached I’m spent and friendly hands take the rope and tie the kayak off and I secure a smartly earned beer. The space smartly over 80k travelled in about 10 hours I’m exhausted.
Then 2 beers later the noxious data now we were knowledgeable now to now not camp here there could be a rock live performance on tonite about 50 meters from us and too many undesirables spherical and our accommodation shall be a govt constructing and not utilizing a water.
The crew showing off their beer cans.
We resolve to form the madness thing I delight in to chase abet across the 2 rivers to the assorted aspect and the crew will pressure spherical down to a bridge and as much as fulfill me. By this time its darkish so I chase 100 meters up the river in the eddies and then in the reduction of acroos the enormous Pahang river in the darkness after 2 beers and then quietly chase across Sungai Tembeling and seaside the kayak and tie it off on the abandoned houseboat.
What a tiresome concept nonetheless I form it anyway. A swim for a wash and cook dinner in the darkness.
Nice baked beans and curry rooster and corn all from a can and a hot chocolate. Upright as I’m eating it the boys turn up its handiest taken them an hour they setup camp.
Quickly camp is wrecked by that storm I saw forming and all the pieces it in every single field excluding me as rapidly because it started raining I’m in the abandonded boathouse hahaha and the boys dart in and out all nite getting frigid beer from GREEN.
I drift off to sleep after 11pm and those two smartly they were as much as 2am+ ingesting beer.
So over 120K down (and 70k paddled on the present time) and 270k to head.
smash
Day 4 – Sunday
The Storm raged outside and I’m in the abandoned houseboat cosy and warm and dry.
Peters final day he has to head away this morning. Nonetheless, he delays his departure with a SMS with a Daves in agonize message hahaha.
We arise very gradual and I’m no longer in the water except 8.30am shrimp form we know the importance of this error.
The abandoned boathouse and the mighty Sg Pahang in the background dirty and like a flash.
The make stronger trucks lined up nearly keen to roll.
A helping push to originate my day all I need now might presumably well presumably be a engine.
Primarily the hottest is ethical and the water is up a shrimp bit from the storm.
My GPS is working again I drift along at about 4-6k then the GPS dies.
Damn it’s gonna be a protracted day nonetheless handiest 50k to a pullout level so we are able to head Kayak fishing tomorrow at a Dam.
A fisherman attends his empty secure I cruise by silently ambushing Monkey Troops.
The monkeys are fun I silently follow the shady bank they utter and howl warnings as you near past. Then the shocker is a large marquette monkey (yeah the alpha male) swish on the threshold bugger he hissed and screeches at me I valid – Bastard that’s my job to fright you hahaha.
This is one enormous wide river
The morning is uneventful with a on day by day foundation chase and now indicators of human lifestyles with river bank either aspect being cleared for oil palm plantation and agriculture.
No GPS I navigate with maps handiest and roughly know where I’m.
3k from lunch the radio involves lifestyles wahoo they’re on the bridge and at the moment its lunchtime swish on time what form I delight in yup baked beans and corn and rooster curry again and hot cholocate.
What did the boys delight in smartly good chinese language breakfast and low in metropolis.
Pulling in for lunch I am hoping its no longer beans again hahaha.
Meet the crew at 1.00pm at Jerantut some 30k down the river and then handiest every other 20k to chase and I’m able to secure pulled out and relax.
Lunch being cooked.
Peter aloof is no longer going to head dwelling he elects to discontinuance again and in addition they will take a look at the pull out level 2k down river and then every other 20k extra on as now we delight in no longer previously recc’ed this segment.
I plod them and chase down the smooth aspect of the river it’s now in the coloration.
Plenty of hours plod and then an SMS. Despicable data they’re at Kuala Krau and there might be never this kind of thing as a pullout aspects so as soon as more I delight in extra than 30k to commute this time it seems love an extra 35kilometers from where I’m. Faarrrrrrrrkk a short calculation shows this can take me to valid after sundown to entire.
Oh smartly valid build on.
The afternoon time out is a pride and extremely assorted to this mornings leg. Hundreds corners and spherical every nook one thing assorted at the side of headwinds and rock formations and the surprise – snakes toddler cobras in the water and then water shows enormous ones in every single field and naturally the troops of monkeys the kayak sneaks up on.
I take a smash and drift along for half-hour no longer paddling valid eating sultanas and vitality bars as the kayak cruises past an island the faster hottest pushing me along. Then a child cobra to dart across the river. It takes of when it realises I’m after it.
What a elegant uncover out a pair of hand carved wooded canoe out of a single log aloof being feeble.
Quickly its abet to the relentless paddling and its nearly sundown, fisherman abound on boats so I could presumably well presumably simply aloof be shut to civilsation. I plod a fishing family where u from – Unusual Zealand. The build you plod – PEkan.
Hi there wait a minute those Asli spoke english hahahaha.
Quickly there could be a pair of hills sticking (seems love a girl I knew as soon as – twin peaks) up I take a look at the method aha I know that hill and where I’m lastly (Kuala Krau is straight to the smooth of the hill alternatively the hills are 400 meters high) – I also know I’m about 15k out.
However it’s nearly darkish I switch to use the IPhone as the LUMIX will get water in the lens 
. Upright on Sad I peer what seems love logs stuck in the water then the LOG comes straight at me what the hell – BANG it hits the kayak and then swims off then every other – WTF swimming LOGS? – I work it out it’s water shows (as much as 2 meters long) swimming upstream in the silty water they can’t peer and are valid below the outside plently of them swimming I study and build a long way from hahaha.
The IPHONE takes a horrible picture in low gentle this is what I peer at sundown.
Then without warning it’s darkish and I aloof delight in over 10k to head. I drift for approximately 20 minutes and let my eyes secure feeble to the darkness (any use of the mobile phone or a torch ruins your nite vision for 5-10 minutes) and forestall wide awake for the moon to upward push.
Then I chase again this time slowly at about 4-5k an hour. 90 minutes later I peer bridge all lite up I secure on the radio somebody there YUP YUP You are a 1k from me.
Peter has long gone and Kantha is now the make stronger. He shines a torch and I fix the sphere and map for it.
Quickly its 8.45pm and I’m on the pullout level and I hop out of the kayak pitch sunless and exhausted. Nonetheless, now we delight in a 200 meter haul with the kayak uphill to construct it on the GREEN wagon. I tumble 3 cases carrying the kayak tripping over coconut shells and assorted rubbish.
Dinner is at an enviornment restaurant and in addition they break it for me by inserting chilli on the rooster valid enormous on chaffed lips. Bugger what a day I delight in carried out what seems love over 80 killermeters again and paddled for 2 1/4 hours in the darkish. I plod to sleep and Kantha drives us no longer abet to Kuala Lumpur nonetheless to Rompin where we’re going KAYAK fishing tomorrow morning.
I wanna attain this time out I knowing to near abet in a month and proceed – I give myself 3 days to form the final 200k and optimistically peer extra otters.
So in summary K180 marker became as soon as reached and I delight in to secure to K403 on the GPS – truly I delight in truly paddled over 200k as at K060 Gps level the distance became as soon as already 70k travelled.
We pressure off into the evening no longer for dwelling nonetheless for a Dam on the East aspect of Malaysia (250k away). Drive on Kantha I’m napping wake me at Kuala Rompin – yup while you peer the enormous sailfish mobile on the road.
And you belief this chronicle became as soon as over – it ain’t there might be one extra day to head.