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As dusk arrives, the bats of Mulu emerge from the caves and head out to feast on the insects of the surrounding jungle. 1989.

Daily Photo – Bats of Mulu at Dusk

As the sun disappeared below the horizon we turned our eyes back to the hills, watching and waiting. And then we started to see the bats of Mulu take flight.

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Hanging out, waiting for the sun to set and the bats to fly, a light shower drifts across the hills of the Gunung Mulu National Park casting a rainbow as the sun dips to the west. 1989.

Daily Photo – Mulu Rainbow

Waiting for the sun to set and the bats of Mulu to take flight, mother nature treated us to this wonderful rainbow as a shower drifted across the hills.

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Three bats cling to the rock ceiling in Clearwater Cave. Mulu, 1989.

Daily Photo – Clearwater Cave Bats

Quite why these three bats chose this spot I’ve no idea. But apparently, every evening they’d head out to feast in the jungle and then return here again at dawn. Home, sweet home!

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Inside Clearwater Cave, Mulu, looking back to the entrance. The material is the foreground is a heaving pile of bat and swiftlet guano! Mulu, 1989.

Daily Photo – Inside Clearwater Cave

It was here that I made a mistake I was to repeat several times in the caves – I stepped off the path. The material on the floor in front of me is tens of thousands of years accumulation of bat and swiftlet droppings – a big steaming pile of bat shit! I didn’t realize that till I stepped off the path and my foot started to sink into this soft, gooey material. As I said, I made that same mistake several times!

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