Wednesday, 7 November 2018

Borneo 2018 selected photos

Ratan...very prickly!

Note name of 'our bus'

Wild ginger

Pitcher plant





Mount Kinabalu (behind us!)


Rafflesia



proboscis monkey




Entrance to the smelly cave with the birds nest soup swiftlets , plenty of cockroaches and guano


Mud volcano

Elephant poo (so they were around!). Note the tiny toadstools growing on it.



Wellies and washers provided

herbal foot soak

canopy walk

Wood louse


Dragon fruit

Tarantula (through telescope)


Our cabin is one of the ones you can see, where we were in the heart of the forest



lantern bugs






Our room on the island

Rare sight: Grandpa swimming!











Borneo 2018

Here are a few videos of Borneo: rather amateur I am afraid!
 

an encounter on the way to our room.

 
 

swiftlets by the river

 
 
leeches looking for a victim

 
 
 Tropical rain
 
 
Canopy walk


 
Monkeys


 

Monday, 1 May 2017

Poland April 2017

Here are a few photos from our Poland trip. There will be more to follow.
Mistletoe...loads of it everywhere



fungi and carpet of wood anemomes

spotting woodpeckers

Pool made by beaver activity



Anemone and Hepatica flowers


Ant on Alternate leaved golden saxifrage

Moth ? what

Map maker butterfly



Huge colony of nesting black-headed gulls


Marsh marigolds by the hundred

Elk


Fruitless search for aquatic warblers


ice cream anyone?

One of the many stork nests we saw