A look at Sungai Pengkalan Datu

Continued from A brief look at Pantai Irama.

From Bachok I followed the main road along the coast up north until it began to turn to the west. That's when I saw a rather big river near the roadside and decided to have a closer look.

A look downriver. From maps and satellite pictures in Google Earth I found out the river flows out to the South China Sea from a place called Pantai (beach of) Sabak.

However I couldn't find its name in the maps.

But I could see that it passed a place called Pengkalan Datu which I understand has much historical significants and surmised its name as Sungai Pengkalan Datu. I then googled that name and found some results although not a clear map showing the river as Sungai Pengkalan Datu. So there. For the record this is the 787th article in this blogspot.

p/s: Later I found and had a closer look at a rather detailed map and found this river is indeed called Sungai Pengkalan Datu.