Tag:Brunei

We came across the abandoned narrow gauge railway in the Brunei Jungle. I didn't walk to the far end but I understand it ended at an abandoned logging camp.

Where can I find photos for my blog?

Where can I find photos for my blog or website? You’ve crafted your blog post and now your need to illustrate it. “Where can I find a photo for my blog?” your wonder. Well, one solution is the plethora of stock photo sites out there but then you run the risk of your blog looking like everyone else’s. I mean, how many times do you go to websites and see the same vacuous images of hip young office workers, clustered […]

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Three riverboats sit at the jetty on the Batam Barang in Sarawak. Note the spare propellors lashed to the deck on each boat. 1989.

Daily Photo – Batam Barang Riverboats

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 […]

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Oilfieild supply boats moored against the wharves at Kuala Belait. Brunei, 1989.

Daily Photo – Supply Boats on the Sungai Belait

This photo of supply boats on the Sungai Belait (Belait River) is the last slide I shot in Brunei.

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The jungle is refllected in the surface of this lake. Brunei, 1989.

Daily Photo – Jungle Reflections

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.

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Here's another view looking up at the jungle canopy in Brunei.

Daily Photo – Canopy Revisited

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!

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Wet feet in the morning is not the best way to start the day, but sometimes it's just unavoidable. Submerged bridging, Brunei, 1989.

Daily Photo – Wet Feet

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.

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