Kinabatan Wetland Resort

The next part of the trip was to spend two nights at the Kinabatan Wetland Resort.
This resort is located off the coast and took a 20 min boat trip to get there. Part of that was winding up the Kinabatan river which is the colour of the Yarra and a rich source of aquatic wildlife fish, prawns etc.
There are local people who live on the river and earn their livelihood from catching and selling the fish 🐠.
The river has a strong current in the tide change and is home to crocodiles 🐊 of man eating size.
The resort is built on the wet land using “iron wood” a local timber almost impervious to rot hence the name.
The day we arrived to take the boat trip was particularly hot 🥵 mostly because it was around midday.
One of the more confronting thing about the Malaysian water ways is the amount of plastic litter which is either floating on the surface or slightly submerged. I did my best to clean it up whilst I was there which earned some applause from the locals.Read more