Monthly:January 2013
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 leave accrued and decided to travel a little in the region. At high school I’d joined the school caving (spelunking) group. Every month or so a couple of the teachers would take 10 – 14 of us kids after school to explore caves in the Mendips – about an hours […]
This photo of supply boats on the Sungai Belait (Belait River) is the last slide I shot in 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!
