Daily Photo – Heading Downriver
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Daily Photo – Heading Downriver

The trail we were following to get to our bat flight viewing experience ran close to the cliff edge in places as you can see in the photo below, of a longboat heading downriver.

I'm looking almost straight down into this longboat. There are four people in it. A man at the bow, another at the stern and two women in the middle. The two women have a suitcase each, the red one being very obvious. I wonder how sharp this image would be it I took it today with my Canon 5D Mark II and an ‘L' series auto-focus lens with image stabilization. That's because this was shot on 100 ISO slide file using a and most likely a zoom at 300mm and not an ‘L' series lens at that.

In the shadow on the far bank, the longboat heading downriver has just passed a small jetty. That's how I know this one is heading downriver, because the bow of the boat tied up at the jetty is facing the other way.

I wondered where the women were going. It was too late to get to Long Terawan by nightfall so my guess is they were headed to a or other settlement not quite so far away and maybe continuing on in the morning. Of course, they could have had some form of light but I don't recall traffic on the at night.

A longboat heading downriver in the Gunung Mulu National Park. 1989.
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