Chanthaburi River at Samet Ngam.
The large vessel is a former WWII British navy minesweeper HMS Minstrel, later HTMS Phosamton.
Restoration efforts sporadic since 2012. My guess, they've given up and its future is as a dive attraction further south at Koh Chang.
sad they may be gone from the wild and confined to zoos
A water vole?
Dormouse, first thought it was a normal mouse but it was a much lighter golden colour. Too quick to photograph. Love seeing them, rare these days. I planted a wild hedge in my place 20 meters long; mixed black thorn, bird cherry, hawthorn, beech, hazel and ash. after 5 years started to cut it and it bushed out, saw 8 birds nest in the autumn when the leaves dropped which made all the effort worth it but what i really loved and was surprised about was finding a dormouse nest. The hedge attracted local cats, and i fukin hate them but the inclusion of the two thorn trees meant the bastards couldn't access the birds - i left it 4 foot wide deliberately.
Yeah, cats kill everything.
I thought it looked like a water vole. We used to have loads in the river down from the house and when I fished as a kid I saw them all the time.
Sometime in the 90s some mink escaped from a fur farm, took residence and wiped out the voles. 20 odd years later the mink have long gone, but so have the voles, forever.
This was about the time there were loads of stories about big cats, maybe black panthers wandering around Somerset and Devon. I remember one morning waling the dogs along the river when I found half a dead lamb propped up on a tree branch about 12 feet up. I've often wondered what did that... a heavy load for a mink but we're too built up for mystery black panthers, I reckon.
^ Still local sightings of the "big cats" apparently. There is much talk of rewilding which i am all for, but us rural folk will live in fear of the stagger home from the pub if they re-introduce the wolf. I really can't see that helping the country pub trade, i've seen what happened in American Werewolf in London and i don't mean shagging Jenny in the shower.
She was just granted refugee status in Italy.
It is a mark of the routine brutality used by the Myanmar Junta that they are unashamed to publish photos like this of terribly beaten prisoners - these captured reportedly after a PDF raid on a police station in Zalun, Irrawaddy.
from jonathan head twitter.
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