I've never met a Ganges dolphin, but I've met a few cousins of theirs on the Indus back in the day. Likewise blind, they frolicked around our rowing boat like newborn lambs. Sweet and sociable and in danger of extinction, sadly. The Pakistanis don't use the Indus as a crematorium, but it a favoured storm drain for the country, awash with plastic detritus - and has the dubious distinction of being the second greatest source of riverine pollution in Asia, I read somewhere... Tony Wild
Blimey Kevin. Swimming across the Ganges was a brave venture. I always connect it to death for obvious reasons, though also because I once ended up there when my plane did an emergency landing because some ducks had flown into the engine and caught fire!
Glad you are recovered. Greetings from Suffolk, where I’ve just read the piece in the Guardian about the River Dolphins.
I actually appreciate being urged to look at a map.
I ways imagined you swimming front crawl for some reason! I'm relieved to read that you did your best to keep your head up :-)
I've never met a Ganges dolphin, but I've met a few cousins of theirs on the Indus back in the day. Likewise blind, they frolicked around our rowing boat like newborn lambs. Sweet and sociable and in danger of extinction, sadly. The Pakistanis don't use the Indus as a crematorium, but it a favoured storm drain for the country, awash with plastic detritus - and has the dubious distinction of being the second greatest source of riverine pollution in Asia, I read somewhere... Tony Wild
Blimey Kevin. Swimming across the Ganges was a brave venture. I always connect it to death for obvious reasons, though also because I once ended up there when my plane did an emergency landing because some ducks had flown into the engine and caught fire!
Glad you are recovered. Greetings from Suffolk, where I’ve just read the piece in the Guardian about the River Dolphins.