Lake Tai
On the last day of our three-day holiday G-man and I were invited to a marina on China's third largest lake, Taihu. Both Suzhou and Wuxi cities are on this shallow but huge lake. An acquaintance from Peavine that has a distribution business near Shanghai invited us out to the marina and provided a houseboat for an overnight stay.
G-man enjoyed his first jetski and had a chance to drive both a motorboat and a houseboat all around the lake. No bridges were knocked down in the process. Trying to avoid hitting the many fish traps in the lake proved to be a challenge. The fishermen place a single, thin, bamboo pole where the underwater traps are so keen eyesight is needed to avoid tangling up in the nets. The lake is also dissected by a part of the heavily trafficked Grand Canal that stretches from Suzhou to Beijing. Large barges full of coal, grains or scrap tear through the lake at surprisingly high speeds. G-man slipped behind one of the barges and we tailed him several miles.
It was so nice to get out of Shanghai for a change. In the evening we enjoyed dinner on the houseboat and watched the moon glimmer on the quiet lake. The silence was remarkable.
On the last day of our three-day holiday G-man and I were invited to a marina on China's third largest lake, Taihu. Both Suzhou and Wuxi cities are on this shallow but huge lake. An acquaintance from Peavine that has a distribution business near Shanghai invited us out to the marina and provided a houseboat for an overnight stay.
G-man enjoyed his first jetski and had a chance to drive both a motorboat and a houseboat all around the lake. No bridges were knocked down in the process. Trying to avoid hitting the many fish traps in the lake proved to be a challenge. The fishermen place a single, thin, bamboo pole where the underwater traps are so keen eyesight is needed to avoid tangling up in the nets. The lake is also dissected by a part of the heavily trafficked Grand Canal that stretches from Suzhou to Beijing. Large barges full of coal, grains or scrap tear through the lake at surprisingly high speeds. G-man slipped behind one of the barges and we tailed him several miles.
It was so nice to get out of Shanghai for a change. In the evening we enjoyed dinner on the houseboat and watched the moon glimmer on the quiet lake. The silence was remarkable.
posted by Kevcham at 9:15 AM
2 Comments:
That sounds like a great time. I think we were there but some of the places we went to, I never got the name of. I know we were in Suzhou and Wuxi. Is this the Westlake that is close to Hangzhou?
I think this is the place we went where it started to rain.
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