The unexpected discovery!!!

[kuching]

wow, the place looks idyllic, and a nice find that is! Your playground seems more fun Michael!

Whole South East Asia is my playground, I hope....

[flashout]

I have being going around few jungle down in Penang, yet to find any. Sigh...

[route]

beautiful pictures
looking forward to your next field report!

[uklau]

Another interesting thread from you, is a shame that in my life I never go to such natural place in my own hometown.

I must go before they disappear... hope this coming December got change to visit some place.

Hii, I bet you dare not exploring those places alone . Perhaps we can arrange for a group trip to those exotic places .

Oh... I missed those olden days where we went camping so often with our scout members .

[hii]

Hi Ben

I won't go alone, will probably ask my sister in law if he saw any nice place in the jungle, cause he stay in jungle more than city...he's not orang asli he work in the timber company as engineer.

He told me got few waterfall with rare fish like "ang ko li", he always follow those orang asli going for hunting and catching fish. We happen to eat fish and jungle pig meat for entire week still can't finish..

Perhaps can ask "Kuching" to organise a short tour to some place he went before...

[kuching]

Oops, I forgot I still got some pictures which I forgot to share with everyone.

On the last day before going home to Kuching, I went to the peat swamp forest of Seri Aman to search for Crypt. pallidinervia. Unfortunately, I failed to find it in the very disturbed peat swamp. Most of the big trees in the swamp are already gone because of logging activity since long time ago. The natural habitat has been destroyed!

A (farmer's) storage hut at the peat swamp of Seri Aman.







Found a clump of Crypt ciliata at the brackish water stream:







About 1 hour of driving distance from Seri Aman, I went to check a freshwater swamp:




Found thousands of Crypt longicauda growing in the flooded swamp:








2 hours later, I went off road to revisit the habitat of Crypt striolata & I was shocked to find out that the jungle has been gone since 3 or 4 years ago & now it became an oil palm estate. Crypt striolata can not adapt to the changes of environment (direct sunlight) and the whole colony wiped out!!!





More destruction of habitat is expected to be happened in the near future......

[kuching]

Hi Ben

I won't go alone, will probably ask my sister in law if he saw any nice place in the jungle, cause he stay in jungle more than city...he's not orang asli he work in the timber company as engineer.

He told me got few waterfall with rare fish like "ang ko li", he always follow those orang asli going for hunting and catching fish. We happen to eat fish and jungle pig meat for entire week still can't finish..

Perhaps can ask "Kuching" to organise a short tour to some place he went before...

Hi hii, where is that place that u mentioned?

[hwchoy]

are you sure that's a storage? looks more like jamban

[StanChung]

More nice pictures! Like the 'found a clump of C ciliata' one. Looks like a planted tank layout.

Choy-it's not over the water and it's pretty big for a convenience utility.

[hii]

Hi hii, where is that place that u mentioned?

I also no idea leh! only saw a photo that my sister have to hold on rope to cross the small river .. the water move quite fast.

Someway in Miri or Bintulu .. no Sibu

I will check with my sister in law once I got change to meet him.

[Isotope]

seen any nice rainforest frogs on your trips?

[hii]

are you sure that's a storage? looks more like jamban

Jamban got a big ceramic cotainer at the bottom leh...

Normally you just dig a hole to bury your "gold" in those jungle. Not need to flush water, you contribute back to the natural.

[hwchoy]

you ever saw Pulau Tekong jamban? the contribution goes right into the sea (or in this case the sungai).

[kuching]

are you sure that's a storage? looks more like jamban

Storage hut leh...

[kuching]

More nice pictures! Like the 'found a clump of C ciliata' one. Looks like a planted tank layout.

Choy-it's not over the water and it's pretty big for a convenience utility.

Thanks Stan.

[kuching]

I also no idea leh! only saw a photo that my sister have to hold on rope to cross the small river .. the water move quite fast.

Someway in Miri or Bintulu .. no Sibu

I will check with my sister in law once I got change to meet him.

Let me know once u got the info.

[kuching]

seen any nice rainforest frogs on your trips?

no....

[natureAddict]

mmm...makes me want to be there. next holiday??? Thanks for sharing