N  91   Gawranji Island   (   part 2   )

The motor cycle carriers suggested we should take a boat to cruise around and go to a place called Crocodile Head . So we got on our motor cycle and went to a fishing village where we can hire a boat. Some got a fishing trawler for us and we got on it to go and see the sea. We were taken to Croccodile head which really lives up to its name but we didn’t get down onto the sandy beach. We just cruise around the turquoise green water taking in the beautiful scenery. We also saw palm leaves huts among palm trees along the shore. 

So this is the lives  of people living near the sea and making their livelihood from the sea, I thought. Quite different from our highlander people ‘s lives. But everywhere the lives of the grassroot people are not easy. As our people struggle with land , these people have  to struggle with the sea which make their lives more dangerous than ours.I also thought about the lives of American farmers which I often see on TV, who do all their farmwork by machine, and work on vast lands. When will our country be developed and lives of people become easier? Its unthinkable until now….

As we were going back that day we paid for the boat and started for town  in our cars with the motorists trailing behind. We were going to have lunch at a motorist house.It was about 1 when we really sat down for lunch. How astonished we were when we saw the table laid for us.It was so full that some dishes had to be laid aside. We tasted all kinds of seafood which can be bought in Nga Yoke Kaung. I remembered I ate some goung which I hadn’t eaten before but the kamar ( mother of pearl ) was more delicious. Though we had paid for the food we noticed that they had done the best to cook for us and with much sincerity, that we thank them from the bottom of our hearts.

Our return journey was delayed at one place where repairing of the road was being done . They were covering the road with stones and was not still pressed by a bulldozer. So when a car tried to go up the ascending road the wheels slipped and cannot go up. Only after trying many times  and a delay of nearly one hour did we succeed in crossing that part.

  Nga Yoke Kaung is still much in need of good roads. And it will need time to become a developed resort. At present it is lacking all kinds of facilities and infrastructures. But with money and energy it can become a resort town like Ngwe Saung or Ngapali…..