So one last photo of a karst limestone island from Phang Nga Bay and then off to new locations. Well, two actually, a black-and-white and a color rendering of the island.
There must be a bazillion islands in Phang Nga Bay, some of them habitable, most of them not and, of course, the one featured in the James Bond movie, 'The Man with the Golden Gun'.
Not living on the edge as in poverty, or as in all the violence that seems to envelope the world these days though there are obvious parallels to the life and future of this flower I captured living in a crack in the limestone rock of one of the karst islands of Phang Nga Bay.
Today's photo is a vertical framing taken inside a hong. I think it better demonstrates the scale of the space.
The part of the Everglades we were exploring is the Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area-Water Conservation Area 3B, according to Google Maps. Not the most romantic name. This corner of the everglades is mostly grassland but there are a few islands dotted here and there that stand a few feet higher than the surrounding land.
It was, as you can see, a grey day. The large vessel and the large cranes lurking in the haze are in Butterworth. Apparently, Penang Island and its main settlement, Georgetown, were the first British settlement on the Malaysian peninsular and date back to 1786.