YRC continued

Actually these pictures probably look very hazy to you. That is because it is always hazy at the gorges. The river guide on the ship said he has been doing this job for about 10 years and he has only seen about 4 sunny days. The pictures you see in books are gotten only by waiting for the right day.



The talks told about the heights of some of these peaks and how deep the water is now and how deep it was before they made the dam and how deep it will be after they make the dam bigger. It was interesting but I don't remember any of that stuff now. It is quite a spectacular piece of topography. About an hour or 2 later we started passing the 2nd gorge, Wu Gorge. This is much longer and takes about 2 1/2 hours to sail past it.


I'm going to do a new post for each segment because as usual there are problems using this program from here. I cannot view the blog and when I post the pictures I see them only as computerese so I cannot comment alongside the pics and I can't tell if the pictures are clear enough for you. I don't want to type this whole blog and lose everything so I will do it in bits. If you want to comment about anything you will have to e-mail me at cathybarrie@yahoo.ca I can't access the comments although I guess that is not working for people either.
So the next morning we arrive at the first Gorge - the Qutang Gorge - it takes us only 20 minutes to sail pass it but it is very beautiful and amazing to see.