Pictures Vol. 3 (see Vol. 2, too, it is new)

Bac Hai's house and the classroom for the past three days.

Good idea, puppy #3...

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Oops. How to cross the river now? We're in the tidal floodplains, which means that the tides control the flow of the waterways. Every 6 hours, the water level moves about 50-90 cm (I'm guessing), and the direction of the flow changes. So in the morning, the plants float upstream, and in the afternoon, they flow downstream... As a boat could historically move about 10 km/hr, and the flow kept in one direction for 6 hours, major cities are almost invariably 60 km apart from each other on waterways (10 km/hr x 6 hrs = 60 km). Or something like that. And our boat sank.

Playing rock paper scissor with some local kids as their parents wove palm leaf walls.

Digging a trench for the biogas digester. 90 cm deep into think floodplain clays, tough work.

Treated to nature's Gatorade - fresh coconut water.

Rain in the dry season... huh. Climate change?First off, climate and weather are different, so there's that. But climate change is talked about a lot here. People stand to lose a lot in the Mekong Delta. If sea level rises, a lot of it will be under water; the highest point is 3 m above sea level. So while rain isn't that odd, or even indicative of something larger, people are still talking.

The Guard.