Forgive me for the lousy pictures in this post – I was much keener on looking at these six Bornean Pygmy Elephants through my binoculars than worrying about taking photos through the dusty windscreen. While I was away in Borneo, … Continue reading
People often ask me about the dangers of the rainforest. They expect me to mention tigers, or something really exciting like that. (I’ve never seen one.) I am more likely to mention malaria-carrying mosquitoes, or the spirochete leptospirosis. (Although I … Continue reading
On the very same project I am now working on, we were once offered free rooms in the staff quarters of a tourist site*. The only rooms available (for my two male colleagues and me) were ones no one wanted. … Continue reading
The canopy walkway at Borneo Rainforest Lodge. Dawn in the mist. The morning sounds of gibbons. Breakfast while watching a trogon, or a pygmy squirrel. The ringing call of the Chestnut-necklaced Partidge. The monotonous tone of the Black and Crimson Pitta. … Continue reading
You all know that I work hard, right? And I have a boring job where nothing ever happens… Like on Monday. I flew out from Kuala Lumpur to the eastern coastal town of Lahad Datu, Sabah. There we were met … Continue reading
Glenda Larke shrieb auch Die Fährte des Blinden _______________________________ … Continue reading
The book is At Home in the World. It is by Joyce Maynard, and the man who sucked her into his realm of total adoration was J.D.Salinger. (I hasten to say no physical abuse was ever involved here, not that … Continue reading
I have just read a fascinating memoir. The writer is a novelist and essayist in her own right, but in this book she concentrates on her own life and the way it was (mostly adversely) affected by the machinations of … Continue reading
To me, one of the most fascinating and wonderful experiences was how much wildlife we saw, and I don’t mean just the birds. Like this Green Rosella, endemic to Tasmania Many people, on coming to Australia from elsewhere, are disappointed. … Continue reading
A foot in an elephant footprint A camp building at Sg Papan and note the strangler fig behind Elephant footprints near camp Talking to our local guides Evening, listening to the song of the bulbuls, watching the Grey Wagtail bobbing … Continue reading
