Daily Photo – New Arrivals

From high on a hillside we had a great view down onto the river and the new arrivals coming upstream.

This photo was taken in the Gunung Mulu National Park in 1989. I don’t actually know which river this is. It could be the Melinau but I think it more likely to be a tributary. The angle of view gives a hint to the steepness of the hillside we were climbing. The longboat is heading to the jetty just a little ahead of it. In the trees to the right of the jetty is a guesthouse of some sort, hence all the longboats at the jetty. My guess is these new arrivals were going to stay in the guesthouse. (duh)

In the distance, the limestone hills rise steeply from the valley floor, the outlines of a limestone cliff visible in the hills just left of center. We were climbing a trail up similar hills on the northern side of this valley in order to watch the bats stream out of the caves of Mulu at dusk.