Daily Photo – Tutoh River Taxi

Daily Photo – Tutoh River Taxi
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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in tomorrow's photo, even this wire and pulley arrangement was no longer in service, the steering mechanism having been superseded again.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.

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Daily Photo – Log Jam

Daily Photo – Log Jam
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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.

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Daily Photo – Batam Barang Riverboats

Daily Photo – Batam Barang Riverboats
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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…

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Daily Photo – Jungle Reflections

Daily Photo – Jungle Reflections
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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.

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Daily Photo – Canopy Revisited

Daily Photo – Canopy Revisited
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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!

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Daily Photo – Morning Commute

Daily Photo – Morning Commute
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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!

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