Selamat pagi (Good morning)! I’ll start by saying that I have added pics to the last entry so it should be a little more interesting now… I left off as we were about to embark on the last part of the field portion of the course, Pulau Redang. An hour boat ride across azure seas took us to what can only be described as paradise. Paradise might even be cutting it short. We pulled up to a diminutive sandy beach skirted on one side by coral reef and on the other by dense jungle. The beach was covered in short sticks [View Full Entry]

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Part Deux Hello again! So since my last blog so much has happened. I left off after just getting to the primary rainforest at Bukit Rengit. We stayed there for 4 nights, foraying in and out of the jungle. Our main focus here was insects. Outside of our dorms (I think rustic is a generous term although we warmed up to them a little) were dozens of rhinoceros beetles that liked to flip themselves onto their backs and writhe around uselessly before ants “cleaned them up”. We took to flipping some of them over and rescuing them but to no avail [View Full Entry]

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Malaysia Field School Penang Well I decided to start a travel blog rather than try to e-mail everyone individually. I've already been in Malaysia for almost 3 weeks. It seems like I have been here for months and at the same time it feels like I just got here. I'll write a first message catching up on the first couple of weeks and then hopefully post more regularly when I have the chance. For those who don't know I am taking a university course here in tropical field ecology through UVic and University Sains Malaysia. There is a group of 11 [View Full Entry]

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