Advertisement
Borneo - the third largest island in the world - was all about the wildlife and the diving....so we'll let the pics do most of the talking....
Orang Utans ("man of the forest" in Malay) are only found in Malaysian and Indonesian rainforests and are famous for their long arms and reddish-brown hair and for being dead brainy - they were recently 'proven' to be the most intelligent of all the primates, including chimps. Some of the more refined among you may also recognise them from the classic movies
Every Which Way But Loose and the sequel,
Any Which Way You Can, in which Clint Eastwood starred as a trucker and brawler roaming the American West while accompanied by his pet orangutan - Clyde - who packed a hefty punch; favourites from my childhood and apparently the two highest-grossing Eastwood movies of all time, amazing. Orang Utans are the most arboreal of the great apes and tend to spend nearly all of their time in the trees. Anyways, they were happy enough to entertain us for an hour or two when we visited Sepilok Rehabilitation Centre, they're certainly not shy....
Sipadan has a legitimate claim to hail
itself as one of
the best dive sites in the world - Jacques Cousteau called it "an untouched piece of art" - so naturally we decided to give it a wee bash. The current-washed island rises 2,000 feet, pinnacle style, from the bottom of the seabed and is home to schools of greenback and hawksbill turtles - ten a penny! - barracuda 'tornados', packs of big-eye trevally and massive bumphead parrotfish, not to mention manta rays, hammerhead sharks and the occasional whale shark, a divers mecca as they say....
We did three dives a day for four days - that's us into our twenties now - and are starting to get the hang of it.....so we've decided to head back next week for another five days, you've got to treat yourself....
Arrived in Darwin last night after driving 3,500 miles from Perth in a campervan - super toasty up here - flying out on Sunday before we're declared bankrupt! Still, being in the western world does have some perks; 9pm on saturday we'll be sitting down to watch the old firm game with a few stubbies, nice....
Advertisement
Tot: 0.407s; Tpl: 0.022s; cc: 12; qc: 76; dbt: 0.1263s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1;
; mem: 1.2mb
Paul D
non-member comment
What camera?
Hi - cool underwater photos - what camera set-up are you using for those?