Another view of the river scenery. This one is of Susu mountain which is visible for a large part of the journey. The clouds were changing quite quickly in the afternoon on this day and were doing a very strange layering effect. It made the mountain look much larger than it actually is. The Karawari river is part of the Sepik watershed and it really does drain a lot of water. We're still a long way away from the coast at this point, but not too far down river from where this picture was taken, the land flattens out like the panhandle of Texas and these large rivers snake their way to the ocean. It makes our 20 mile "as the crow flies" journey take nearly 40 miles of river travel because we weave back and forth through the landscape. One thing that I never thought rivers could do was to fork into two rivers, but that's what this river seems to do many times. Sure, a river can have sandbars in the middle (thank you Platte river) but to actually diverge and later rejoin after miles multiple times is just strange to me. It might be interesting to take my GPS and map out some of these forks in the river, but that would take even more time on the river, so I'm not sure I'm too interested in doing that. These guys really know this river though as it seemed to change (or we took much different paths coming down, not sure) in the time I was at Kaiam.
Oh, and Susu means milk, so you can figure out what the people that named this mountain thought it looked like... ;-)
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