Kuantan On The River

Westwards - upriver.
Eastwards - opens up to South China Sea. Tanjung Lumpur is on the other side - great seafood strip.
I love boats. I love sampan. I love them like I love ribeye steak.
Trawlers - I've never been on one of these. We don't have this type in Dungun. Maybe a few lately.
Tugboat going upriver hauling a barge. Used to love watching stevedores on a barge in Dungun in the 60s.

Sun coming up. My favorite time of the day. Actually I over slept and rammed up the shutter speed to darken the image. Photoshop will have to wait.

Kuantan used to be my kinda town but not anymore now that the girl I used to love with everything I got in the world is a distant memory that I can't, for the life of me, piece together something about her to even remember how she looked like. I used to have her photographs but who knows where I must have placed pictures of me and her in the kinda hair style back then when the hot bands were people like Bay City Rollers and Wynners or something like that that she liked very much but I didn't care very much about it because I wasn't into that kinda music but you know what love can do to you; it can make you like the music you don't like just because that's the kinda music she likes. And so you listened even though deep inside you wish you were somewhere else where you didn't have to listen to the music all that much because all you wanted to say to her was; will you marry me even though deep inside you knew better that it was impossible because you didn't have a job and you had no future going for you.

I used to like Kuantan very much but not anymore because it wasn't the clean town I used to know. But I like Kuantan On The River very much because the barge, the tugboat and the trawlers remind me that we are going some place even though we might not know for certain where that place is that we are going to but you can bet two of your eyes that we are going some place.