Kuching - Bako Part II - Kubah National Park

Bako National Park ....( continued )

Bird sleeping.....

The yellow orange puff like bird sleeping we were told

At night we tour the pitch dark trail, torches located in the above swallows nesting in a shallow cave.

another view... how on earth the two adult swallows adhere to the cave surface. Adults stay outside and mother/child inside nest?

...  and cave spider

A scorpion centipede

We were told to turn off the torches and thrown in total darkness. Seconds later we saw glows from around us on the forest floor. The glow came from light emitting  mushrooms! ( the white ones in above images)

Bird found alone Lintang trail.  It looks pretty rugged. 

Lintang Trail with no tall tree to shade from the sun. Bring a umbrella - you will not regret it.

ant plant

Ladder leading to the Telok Pandan Kechil Beach

This fellow throws up the sand and will rush into the burrow when approach

Telok Pandan Kechil Beach with Santubong in the distant right centre.

Iron-crust like alien planet

Standing near the ledge looking down at the beach from top.

In and around HQ - Seaside with colorful sandstone formations

Details on the colorful sandstone.

Iron oxide streaks creating a huge canvas of painted wall.

Yet another pretty formation 

textured sandstone

Iron oxide crust

Sandstone with the usual orange yellow color with seams of iron oxide ( brownish black)

KUCHING near the SARAWAK RIVER

Gave me an impression the temple was build on the flat top of another building.

 Fern's shoots - this is belin the tender version as contrast with the paku

Mani-chai ( vegetable) with eggs. A common vegetable. 

You suck out the chewy meaty stuff from one end.

Kubah National Park : Waterfall, Selang trail

Orang hutan destroyed the hinged doors near waterfall changing rooms

Figs littering the forest floor at this spots

View Point ( See below)

Bako National Park, Kuching Sarawak

Kuching : 29/4 - 2/5 2013

Bako National Park

Keywords : Proboscis Monkey, Sandstone, Bearded Pig , Irrawaddy dolphin, firefly,  scorpion millipede, Pit Viper, iron cast, pitcher plant, ants plants, hermit crab.

Heading out towards Bako National Park by speed boat.  ~ 20 minutes ride.  We had to hired the whole boat since there is only two of us else you can wait and split the $ with others.

Gunung Samtubong  ( extreme right) looms in the distance ...  turning right

Fishing nets  ready to be strung across the stilts 

Sandstone and coastal forest

Arriving ....Bako National Park.  (Departure will be a different place as the afternoon low tide means you have to get onto the boat at the other side opposite the HQ restaurant bare footed before you jump into the boat.)

Roaming freely in HQ's area or on the beach  - bearded pig 

Saw a bird over head  nibbling at the Casuarina stalk

Plenty of trekking trails to choose from.  

Secluded beach at  Telok Paku trail  ( .8 Km / 1 hr)

 No shading @Lintang Trail.   Umbrella is a must  for sheltering  from the hot sun!!!!

Ants plant

Flowers seen along the nutrient deficient trail of Lintang

Few flowers along this trail ... 

Pitcher plant 

Huge boulders and deep crevices on the descending path.

The smooth oval stone partially embedded in the sandstone. This area was once under the sea -  Lintang trail  

Proboscis Monkey - around the Bako National Park HQ

Big belly fellow looking for young leaves of sea almond (Terminalia  catappa)  to feed on.  

Notice the rather long hand

Back view of the pretty fur coat.

Notice the long narrow  foot adapted for staying on branches

Canon SX50HS provides a closer look than the 25mm lens on EOS 60D

Feeding on the sea almond leaves

Terminialia catappa tree

Incoming tide keep the shore submerged.

Sunset over the beach

Patterns on dry sand created by  ebbing shallow  currents

Canon SX50HS - 50x optical zoom

Yishun pond near the spillway.. easy target

A bird in the tree....

 A closer look through the camera's zoom ...It is a Green pigeon

The Kingfisher was directly above me, his companion's bluish coat is visible on the lower branch

The lizard was half way up on the left trunk at the lowest sun light point

A close up view using the Canon SX50HS

Bokeh shot of the Hoya Wax flower

Moon 26 - Apr - 2013

Flowering on my neighborhood trees

April 07  2013 Sunday i looked out the door-gate and noticed the pinkish hue among the green branches swaying in the overcast morning sky.

Trying to bag the flowers ... eos  60D // 250 mm lens .. the image is still a little of small.    

Here is a  crop of the first image. .. toasted in Gimpshop.  My sansui LCD had very different contrast versus my HP Laptop screen.  Parakeets , swamps of them get attracted to this during fruiting. My earlier blog.