Daily Photo – Melinau Longboat

January 28, 2013
Travel

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I'm reasonably sure this photo was taken on the Melinau because the river is so narrow (comparatively). All-in-all it took me a day to get up-river from Miri to Mulu. Sometimes it takes longer if the boats get delayed, the river's low or you can't find a longboat to charter. Through my contacts in Brunei, I had everything arranged for me in advance so my boat changes were planned and I was expected.

Daily Photo – Tutoh River Taxi

January 27, 2013
Black and White / Travel

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Clearly the boat had seen better days. The windshield and side glass had long since disappeared. I wondered if in fact they had been plexiglass that had turned yellow and opaque. Note also that there is no-one steering up front! As you'll see in tomorrow's photo, even this wire and pulley arrangement was no longer in service, the steering mechanism having been superseded again. But despite the engineering modifications, the boat floated and it got the job done.

Daily Photo – Log Jam

January 26, 2013
Travel

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This is all well and good until a log escapes. You might not be able to see it in the image below, but at 100% you can see there is a cable that runs down the outside of both sides of the log raft. Dead center of the photo there are two men in a small boat trying to push a log that has slipped outside the cable back into the raft.

Daily Photo – Batam Barang Riverboats

January 25, 2013
Travel

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Three riverboats sit at the jetty near the mouth of the Batam Barang in Sarawak. With the survey over and the equipment shipped out from Kuala Belait, I had some…

Daily Photo – Supply Boats on the Sungai Belait

January 24, 2013
Travel

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This photo of supply boats on the Sungai Belait (Belait River) is the last slide I shot in Brunei.

Daily Photo – Jungle Reflections

January 23, 2013
Travel

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As my canopy photos have shown (here and here) the canopy in the survey area in Brunei was not particularly dense hence the proliferation of ground cover and hence the term, jungle.