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Published: January 17th 2013
Orangutan: Tick! After waiting an hour at the feeding platform, no takers for bananas and milk so hitched onto a 3 hour trek further and higher into the rainforest. Still no luck after 2 hours when an extraordinary 20 year old 'gentleman of the trees' swung languidly across our path and elegantly snaffled a banana! He then continued some acrobatics for about 20 minutes before getting bored with us and swinging away into the canopy. Amazing! A hard act to follow really. It was followed by the appearence of 5 Thomas leaf monkeys ( we were told) with the most amazing faces and also partial to bananas like me. They peel them very deftly unlike me.
That was yesterday. This is today. After 140 km ride , the last 45 going uphill from 50 to 1400m I'm in Berestagi. Completely shattered and a bit cold Sounds Italian don't you think? A brace of active volcanos nearby. Hope to bag 1 of them tomorrow, weather permitting.
Never a dull moment.
Nick B
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Michael
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'Floaters'
Nick - great to hear of your liaison with big O - I am impressed that you are able to identify the gender and age so easily! Also good to hear that you remain very interested (? obsessed with) floaters since being at the receiving end of Dr Burkitt\'s lecture so many many moons ago. You almost managed to get me interested with your overt enthusiasm for this fasinating topic becoming almost infectious. Take care. Much love from the Melbourne branch. Michael