The usual drill: up at 4:45, breakfast
and off at six in the boats. This
morning it was quite chilly - actually 70, but we’re used to higher
temperatures. We motored up the Menanggul
River noticing that with the drought here the river is quite low and leaves are
dropping from the trees.
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| A bridge built for monkeys to cross the stream |
The birds were
very quiet today and didn’t respond to Rose Ann’s tapes. The boatmen took us up to the last navigable
part of the river which, with the lack of rain, is shallow and full of exposed
and hidden fallen trees. We managed to
lose a piece off our propeller after one collision, but fortunately have two
outboards. We returned at 11.
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| Cruising the Menanggul |
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| Stork-billed Kingfisher |
After lunch and nap we all took off in
the boats upriver and turned off onto a fast moving stream leading from our
river into an ox bow lake. It was quite
lovely and we were the only people there.
We watched birds and saw a Bearded Pig and returned to the hotel at
6:30.
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| An interesting caterpillar |
We noticed on the white board
that keeps track of the various species seen by different groups that one party
listed was that of Sir David A & Lady A!!
After our dinner some of our group returned to look for an owl that sits
on the boat dock and found Attenborough having a private dinner in our pavilion
with his entourage!
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| A Water Monitor - ~6' long |
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