A Few Sights from the River

Occasionally when flying high over a river, you see this LONG "train" of sorts pulling hundreds of logs.  As one of these "trains" came through PalangkaRaya the other day I stopped to get a picture while crossing the large bridge in town on my way home.  In the top of the picture you see the engine of the train pulling the load down the river.  The smaller boats are used to steer the logs and keep them in the middle of the river.  There was one more large boat tied to the end of the train actually driving backwards from the rest of the train in order to keep the line of log taut.

Another thing we often see coming out of the heart of Borneo are these smaller boats pushing loads of pure rubber.  They harvest it from rubber trees, make it into "bales" and them float it down river to be sold.