On sunny, clear days, Thuan An estuary is a vibrant green, with white waves gently undulating as if playing with the clouds and wind. On rainy, windy days, Thuan An estuary is shrouded in a gloomy gray. On some cold winter afternoons, Thuan An estuary takes on a deep purple hue, looking like something out of a distant fairy tale…

I remember my first trip to Hue. As we passed through Thuan An estuary, the boatman shouted loudly, "The boat is about to pass through the estuary! Children, don't stick your heads out!" The boatman's warning piqued the curiosity of a country boy like me, traveling far from home for the first time. I poked my head out the window and looked towards the sea, seeing the white waves chasing each other. Suddenly, the boat lurched violently, and water splashed into the cabin. I jumped in fright, but looking around at the other passengers, I saw that everyone seemed calm.

The waterway connecting the villages on the other side of Tam Giang Lagoon has existed for several decades, with countless ferry trips. There have been days of heavy rain and strong winds, with waves crashing in all directions...

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Before the 1980s, when scorching hot winds from Laos swept through Hue and prolonged heatwaves caused the water levels of the Perfume River and the O Lau River to drop, seawater from the Thuan An estuary spread through the Tam Giang lagoon into the river branches. This saltwater intrusion affected the tap water supply for the people of Hue at that time; in my hometown of Ngu Dien, the rice fields were dry but couldn't be irrigated by river water because saltwater had encroached into the river. My villagers called it "saltwater eating the fields." The Thao Long and Cua Lac irrigation dams were built. The issue of saltwater intrusion has become a thing of the past in the memories of the older generation.

Tam Giang Lagoon is a unique brackish water area, home to famously delicious fish species. It's the environment where the spotted catfish is born from the sea, swims through Thuan An estuary, and grows into the giant catfish. It's also where the spotted eel drifts from the high streams to Tam Giang Lagoon, absorbing the brackish water's scent to become a local delicacy…

The Thuan An sea bridge is the longest sea bridge in Central Vietnam, stretching over 2.3 km. Human ingenuity and strength have built this bridge, reconnecting Thai Duong village, which had been cut off by the Thuan An estuary for over a century. The Thuan An sea bridge also connects a series of coastal wards and communes of Hue city, forming a continuous transportation axis from Phong Phu ward in the north to Chan May - Lang Co commune in the south…

As for me, the boy who once leaned out to gaze at the waves from the Thuận An estuary, I now have a small wish: to take a ferry along the Tam Giang lagoon and admire the Thuận An estuary bridge, like a giant arm reaching out powerfully to connect the joyful shores.

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