renewing my faith in human nature

Had a bizarre ferry ride home today. About 10 huge buckets of live catfish were on board with us, of which I thought "I guess the poor things are going to the restaurants for tonights dinners". Then something strange happened, half way across the Yangtze, the boat slowed down. At first I  thought it must be going around passing ships or avoiding bad currents, which they do sometimes but then something totally amazing happened.Everyone on board started tipping the fish into the river to freedom, Hundreds of small Catfish...saved....for now anyway :-) then the ferry turned around and went back to where we left??? I was just going home from a lazy afternoon meandering around "Walking Street" with Moli...I'm not sure what happened but I just stayed on the ferry(  after everyone collected their buckets and got back off) which proceeded to take the normal route second time around. Some of the people were singing some Chinese buddhists chants at one point. ANYWAY...So lucky I got to witness it, not everyday in China you see such a thing. Wonderful ! I did speak to a lady to try and find out what was happening but Yichang dialect even harder than mandarin to understand. I think it was a "World in Crisis" kind of group but I'm pretty sure I did understand her when she said something about many people around these areas just don't understand The good thing is there was a whole boat load (well 20 or so) who did understand today and a Ferry willing to participate.