Our Klotok with Chinese cook and boatsman
Gliding up the clean side stream before the Research Camp Leakey, here the water was a black colour from the tanins in the water in contrast to the muddy water in the main river caused by the goldmining . The next picture shows men going up to the goldmines in their canoes with very loud outboard motors. It was quite funny as we photographed them and they us!
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| Our Dayak Guide ,Andie- was easy to imagine him being invisable in the jungle |
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| These insect eating plants are called condoms by the locals! |
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| These photos were taken at the feeding site of the research enter - we visited two different ones. We also saw wild Orangutans alongside the river. Note on this photo the very small baby orangutan, hanging on the mother's side and grabbing at the bananas too. |
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| what an expression! |
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| They loved watching us too. when we went back in the canoe balancing carefully so we didn't upset the boat, two half grown Orangutan youngsters swung to a tree beside us and threw a rotten branch in the water to splash us. You could almost hear them laughing. |
The river was very flooded and we had to use a canoe to get into the rainforest. There was a walkway well beneath the water. The houses of the caretakers were completely flooded but our guide said it was OK, they had made their bed a bit higher!
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