Kuantan River

The photoes are,

Kuantan River mouth, observe the colourful fishing boat at the jetty opposite,


And looking upriver from a fishermen landing jetty at Tanjung Api (literary translated as Fir Cape. Probably in the old days they might have a light house over there)


I blogged what I saw earlier, and it was to my mind very interesting. The River would be a beautiful river if the authority in power takes more good care of it. It can be dredged, deepened, banks maintained to an acceptable standard all along the river banks and probably establish a Kuantan River Keeper post in the Goverment services.

http://kiss-met.blogspot.com/2005/12/kuantan-river.html

There is the Kuantan River cruise service run by the Kuantan Municipality. I have been on that cruise once.


The Kuantan River cruise however can be made more productive it is run in a business manner, and mindful of peak and low demands, and have the frequency of the trips to meet those demands. I have seen frustrated people going away at peak demand periods, and these people might never come back again especially if they are local tourists. And if it is made to stop over at interesting places where for example to see the kampong folks at Permu working on their fish products industries (most interesting to local tourists where they can buy some of these products), stop over for a tea break at the Air Puteh (White Waters) bridge where they might look over the Japnese gun emplacemenet (which must be cleaned and maintained of course), and the visit to the swamp made a bit longer and the swamp platforms be repaired to a acceptable standard in the eyes of tourists (foreign and local).


And if the Kuantan River is maintained properly, the sights would be more attractive.

And going on the Kuantan River tour I saw some very interesting sights, the few that I can record here but there are more of them that you can see when you take the tour,

fresh water otter,


the famous Kuantan eagles,


interesting swamps plants,


And as I mentioned earlier the historical Japanese gun enplacement location at Tanah Puteh.







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