Came down from the mountain last night. Off to the Marine Park near Kota Kinabalu today.
My daughter – back in the early eighties – was the youngest kid to climb Mount Kinabalu under her own steam. (She made the top before I did that day.) She was on the front page of a local newspaper under the headline: “Tigress of Kinabalu”, a tag which I am sure she wants to forget.
Now she has just done it again some 25 years later. Fortunately, the morning they made the peak was brilliantly clear.
This time I didn’t go. Knees won’t tolerate that kind of thing any more.
And now we are off to soak up some sun and sand and sea water.
That’s a good book title, that is ..,. *g*
Glad you guys are having such a great time.
If I’d been called Tiger of Kinabalu I wouldn’t want to forget it, that’s a really cool tag.
hmmm…somehow Tiger of Kinabalu sounds more impressive than Tigress of Kinabalu. Tiger seems to suggest a hero. Tigress suggests snarling bad temper to me…*g*
Ah. To me, tigress suggests regal motherhood and beauty, and a healthy no-nonsense attitude, heh.
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