Here at the floating markets of Can Tho, Vietnam, they have i’m sure the Biggest Grapefruit in the World. These things look like honey dew melons. They are big. And delicious.

Just spent 8 hours soaking in the magnificence of the Mekong Delta, with my own private boat captain. (My own company got a bit much, but the markets, the river and its ecology were all gorgeous.)

Occasionally the propellers get caught in plastic bags. So the drivers get the long paddle out of the water, peel off the plastic, and throw the bag back in the water.

The floating markets are so photogenic. i think the locals might get a bit sick of the tourists though. All taking photo but no buying the goods.

i’m trying to be unobtrusive with the mini-camera .. but there’s one guy with a seriously big lens. One of those tourists who doesn’t smile back when you smile at him. You’re only real if you make a good picture .. and even then you’re real in a fully objectified sense.

Anyway, he was the Voracious Tourist for me .. on whom i projected my own “negative affect” as Jude might say.

(Voracious Photos to come .. later on)

photo credit: -RS-