In the evening we went on a nature walk and saw this couple... As I complained before, the Olympus does not focus well on small objects. The video fares a bit better and it a bit creepier to boot!
Same kind of focus problems with this stick insect that we saw the following morning.
But here he is in action:
We had been blessed with a bit of a lie-in (no crack of dawn departures today) and some of us went on a treetop walk. We heard a lot of birds but did not see many.
After this, some of our group went on a hike to a waterfall with a packed lunch. I had decided I would rather rest my knee (it was not hurting so much by now, but the two longest hikes were coming up), have lunch in the open-air restaurant and make sure I was around at the right time to go see the bats.
Everyone actually returned in time, but they were all exhausted and wanted to rest before dinner. So I set off by myself. My plan was to go round this loop trail for about an hour, and then make the trek to the bat amphitheatre to arrive just before dusk.
That loop trail was so gorgeous; it was the best bit of Borneo I'd seen so far. But I don't have many photos (I do have a short video which Blogger is refusing to upload - will try again later), and that is because, when I was about a third of the way round the loop, the heavens opened.
And it was torrential. At first I was thinking how the trees were sheltering me, but then they started dumping buckets of water on me. And there was nowhere to go! So I ran...
I ran back to the lodge and it took an hour or two to dry off. The bats would not have come out when it's raining, so I didn't miss anything. When it stopped we went to a restaurant down the road. And that was it for Mulu!
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