Stuck in Customs: The Li River

Posted on Saturday, Oct 16, 2010

As I was putting together the blogroll for YOUMUSTHAVEAREALLYNICECAMERA, Trey Ratcliff’s great travel blog, Stuck in Customs, immediately came to mind.  Trey is a talented photographer and a really entertaining writer who is constantly finding himself in new and fun places.  Following is an excerpt from today’s blog post which can be found here in its entirety.

Want to hear something amazing about these fishermen? You won’t believe it… but maybe others can confirm this! The fishermen use these two trained cormorant birds that have their throats tied. The birds dive into the water, eat a fish, but then can’t swallow it because of the rope. The fisherman rudely pulls the fish from the bird’s throat and drops it into that basket behind him. The bird then goes over to a tiny keyboard and sends out the tweet, “WTF”.

I nearly spit a mouthful of Coke all over my computer screen as I reached the end of this one.