Monthly:March 2013

Fishermen, still waiing for the best time to cast their nets.

Daily Photo – Still Waiting

Fishermen still waiting for the right conditions to launch and cast their nets. The nets look quite large rolled up and stowed on the canoes.

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The Waiting Game. Two fishermen wait for the for the moment to cast their nets. Somewhere near Kota Kinabalu, 1989.

Daily Photo – The Waiting Game

In today’s photo, two fishermen play the waiting game shortly after sunrise somewhere near Kota Kinabalu. I’ve no idea what they were waiting for…

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Channeling my inner geologist, I titled this image 'Faulty Shoreline'

Daily Photo – Faulty Shoreline

I took this photo I’ve titled Faulty Shoreline somewhere near the the Shangri-La’s Tanjung Aru Resort and Spa in Kota Kinabalu but I can’t actually place it on the map.

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Descending Mount Kinabalu

Daily Photo – Descending Mount Kinabalu

Today’s photo shows a fellow trekker descending Mount Kinabalu on a section of the trail above Laban Rata. It’s the last photo I took on the Mountain. By now the sun was pretty high in the sky removing any character from the views over the Crocker Range.

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Approaching the edge of the plateau, the road to Kota Kinabalu runs along the side of the ridge some 7000+ feet below.

Daily Photo – The Road to Kota Kinabalu

The road to Kota Kinabalu is clearly visible in today’s image, etched into the side of the ridge near the base of the photo. The Park HQ complex is in the bottom left of the photo.

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Having wandered to some of the other peaks on Mount Kinabalu we decided it was time we were rejoining the pack and heading back down the mountain.

Daily Photo – Rejoining the Pack

After a while spend wandering off-trail we decided it was time we were rejoining the pack. The tops of the clouds in this photo are more than a mile vertically below me.

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