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Photo is am HDR merge of seven slides showing the exit to Deer Cave, Gunung Mulu National Park. Note the curtain of water falling in the distance and the piles of bat guano in the mid ground. The colors in the foreground are due to reciprocity failure of the ISO 100 Fujichrome slide film I was using. Shots were hand-held, hence the softness. 1989.

Daily Photo – Deer Cave

The shot below is perhaps the classic Deer Cave shot. Mine is actually a seven-shot HDR – seven slides scanned and merged in Photomatix Pro.

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aving progressed further into the massive passage that is Deer Cave, I took this shot looking back to the entrance. Gunung Mulu National Park, 1989.

Daily Photo – Inside Deer Cave

As we went further into the massive passage that is Deer Cave, I turned back and go this shot back to the entrance.

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Entrance to Deer Cave, Gunung Mulu National Park. 1989. you can get an idea of the scale by looking at the two people in the frame.

Daily Photo – Deer Cave, Mulu

Deer Cave boasts some impressive measurements – passage length of over 4 kilometers with a one kilometer stretch with a width of 174 m and a height of 122 m. The main entrance (photo below) has been measured at 146 m. Indeed, you can get an idea of the scale from the two men that appear in the photo.

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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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A longboat heading downriver in the Gunung Mulu National Park. 1989.

Daily Photo – Heading Downriver

The trail we were following to get to our bat flight viewing experience ran close to the cliff edge in places as you can see in the photo below, of a longboat heading downriver.

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