When flying over the jungle and looking down the canopy just looks like one impenetrable solid mass of green. But as this photo shows, from the ground looking up you can see plenty of sky!
While the bridging would keep you above the water most of the time, after a heavy rain the levels of the lakes would rise and inevitably the foot boards of some stretch of bridging would end up under water. Such was the case in the photo below. Generally, the bluer the water, the deeper it was but this was probably only six to eight feet deep.
While today my morning commute is a 25 mile chore on the freeways of Houston, in 1989, as this photos shows, my commute in Brunei was much more pleasant!
You can't actually see the car driving through this flood in Kuala Belait, one night in 1989, but you know it's there by the trails of the tail lights and the plumes of water on each side.
In this photo, part of my crew heads home across a stretch of lake bridging in Brunei, 1989. The lakes were probably old sand quarries.
We wondered where this jungle railway went when we stumbled across it while laying out our survey grid. It just seemed to start in the middle of the jungle.