Click To Enlarge	Cat Ba Island & Town Cat Ba town is situated on the south end of Cat Ba island. Adjacent to the island is a fish farming village where villagers raise fish in netted corals, which they sell to resturaunts in Cat Ba. According to our guide these villagers live the 'good life' compared to those living in a more isolated location farther away. Another View Along Main Street The Edge of Cat Ba and Fish Farmers Floating Village Fish Farmers Floating Village The Sheltered Cove is the only Safe Place for Fish Pens The Narrows What A Lovely Neighborhood Suberbia! A Coral Close-UP Exit of Fish Farmers Floating Village
Click To Enlarge	Ah... Our Island Getaway Not exactly home, but this is the little island we stayed on for a couple days as our base camp for kayaking around the local area of the bay. Approach View Towards Cat Ba Sunset Departure Return To Cat Ba Return To Cat Ba (Close-Up)
Click to Enlarge	A Full Day Of Kayaking! We had a full day of kayaking... Surprisingly I didn't actually get that tired from paddling! A Beautiful View Starting Out The Water Can Be Quite Shallow At Low Tide (Close-Up) Most Islands Aren't Accessible Hey a Beach! At the Visible End of This Valley We Ate Lunch On the Way to the Green Lagoon Another Boat! What a Curious Rock Some More Curious Rocks The Green Lagoon My Fellow Adventurers Cool Rock Formation Self Portrait Entrance & Exit (Yes, we really did come under the mountain) The Opening The Opening (2) This Cave is Quite Long Do I Look Tired? Silloette Back Out on the Open Ocean Vew From Behind
Click to Enlarge	Hope Floats We visited another floating fishing village. Only this one was farther removed from Cat Ba and was very poor. The floating huts were mostly shacks... not many could be considered cottages. These people have to go fishing out in the gulf to make their money... and they don't do so well as the fish farmers near Cat Ba. I believe this may have been the same village featured in a recent Reader's Digenst story entitled 'Hope Floats' about an American Vietnam vet who helped three girls that had been abandoned by their father. If not this village was very similar to the one featured in the story. The largest buildings in the whole village
Click to Enlarge	Wildlife! Pictures of bufferflies & Things Some Type of Fly-Bee Thing Ack – Out of Focus! Now If I could Just Hold the Camera Still! Good Bufferfly – Bad Camera Angle Better Angle – Ack the Sun! What Type of Butterfly Do You Suppose This Is?