This photo of supply boats on the Sungai Belait (Belait River) is the last slide I shot in Brunei.
Category Archives: Brunei 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.  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. 
[...] the eastern end of the survey zone there was this series of lakes we had to cross to get from the nearest road – the Seria Bypass – into the jungle. This [...]  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.  This image is typical of the jungle canopy – all the branches and leaves at the top of the trees and barren trunks all the way to the ground.
[...] couple of days back I posted a photo of the jungle canopy but it was just one tree really. Below is a variation that shows more [...]
[...] my canopy photos have shown (here and here) the canopy in the survey area in Brunei was not particularly dense hence the [...]  Today’s photo is of the recording setup for an LVL shot somewhere in the jungle of Brunei inland from Seria. The crew member in the red overalls in the background is most probably checking the connection of some component of our spread – either a geophone or an explosives connection. They guy in the foreground is standing by the triggering device. |
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by Richard Davis
[...] terminal on the Batam Barang that served as the river crossing back then. Like the ferry on the Sungai Belait, that ferry is history, a modern bridge a few miles upriver replacing [...]