Temerloh signboard and the current extended sandbank...

Continuing from Pahang river at Teluk Ira - Remnants of the recent extreme dry season?

Going further south I finally arrived at the place I wanted to visit most for the day.

Situated right across the town of Temerloh it is probably the place most pronounced as being affected by extreme dry season of the last 2-3 months.

By right the sand should all by under water, under normal circumstances that is.

But the extreme dry season had caused the Pahang river to dry up at many places to the extent that the locals could built resting huts at parts which are situated close to the middle of the river on normal days...

Still there seems to be plenty of water around.

I say this because in the previous 2-3 weeks I've seen pictures on Facebook taken at angles that seemed to imply that the Pahang river had totally dried up at these parts...

Well yes, I could see water level is down but to say the river has totally dried up? That is quite an exaggeration.

Then again I came when it has rained heavily the last 2-3 days.

So the effect of extreme season might not be as pronounced as it was days before that. For the record the normal water level should be at the foot of the green green grass...