I am trying to catch up on all the things that need doing after being so long away- in the field, at the con, etc. I answered about 70 emails yesterday, and I am still not finished.
Anyway, here's some more photos from my project-work trip: Poring Hot Springs area, which is part of Kinabalu Park.
One of the lovely things about the rainforest is the contrast - you go from being overwhelmed by the grandeur to being enraptured by the perfection of the tiny...
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- Some of the accommodation
- We set off up one of the trails: waterfalls and streams...
- Distance view, framed by wild banana and wild ginger - far below we can see our starting point at the Poring Pk HQ
- Poring means bamboo in the local language, and there are huge bamboo forests here, interspersed with strangler fig trees...
- Resting on the buttress of a fig tree on our way up one of the hill trails
- Mushroom
- A piece of walking fungus...no, actually an insect, viewed from above
- Same insect, side view
5 comments:
Whee. I been there. :o)
You have an amazing life, Glenda. To experience such beauty and be able to cope with leaches. Eek! Donna.
That's an insect?! I find 'walking fungus' easier to believe. ;-) How large was the insect? Do you know what it's called? Very weird, like an alien.
About as big as a finger nail...no, I don't know what it is called, although I have seen them several times.
Looking at your splendid pictures made me feel a bit homesick. *sigh*
But thanks for the lovely views and fascinating details.
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