Daily Photo – The Climb to Laban Rata

February 25, 2013
Travel

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Laban Rata is pretty much at the altitude where the vegetation peters out and the base granite starts. The trek there is through the jungle/rainforest so it can be pretty warm and humid. Most of the climb that I recall was this seemingly endless zigzag of stairs cut into the side of the hill and shored up with wood or stone, without which the entire climb would be a muddy scramble.

Daily Photo – Mount Kinabalu

February 24, 2013
Landscape

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This is a view of Mount Kinabalu taken from the Park HQ in the evening. The sun has already set on the Park HQ but still illuminates the mountain top.

Daily Photo – Selamat Datang

February 23, 2013
Travel

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The shack on the landing is a fuel depot for the longboats of the community. What I still fund curious is that 'Slow Down' is written in English. I only ever saw locals driving boats on the rivers. Maybe they determined 'Melambatkan' wouldn't fit in large enough letters to be visible until it was too late. Or maybe they determined it was only English reading explorers that were speeding on the rivers.

Daily Photo – Soon Hong No. 7

February 22, 2013
Travel

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Just like those bigger riverboats, the Soon Hong No. 7 carried a spare drive shaft and propeller. I still don't know how they would have gone about changing that mid-river.

Daily Photo – Last Mulu Cave Photo

February 21, 2013
Travel

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This photo was taken close by the location of yesterday's flowstone photo. One feature in this photo that I remain curious about is the small curtain-like calcite growth from the floor that separates the pools of water. My inner geologist and caver don't have answers for that one so any ideas would be appreciated.

Daily Photo – More Flowstone

February 20, 2013
Travel

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If I were shooting this today, I'd try to get a person or something else in the shot to provide some scale. I'd also seek to use off-camera flash from the side the provide more interesting shadows that better emphasize the wonderful textures of this flowstone.