Days 94-97: Taman Negara Critters
Spent a few days hiking around the Taman Negara National Park. There are rumored to be over 800,000 species of insect in the park, but most of them were hiding. Here are a few we caught.
This wooly caterpillar reminded Marcus of a Wookie.
Cool orange and metalic-blue wasp.
There were armies of huge ants all over the place. You could actually hear them marching or munching on the ground cover.
Neat looking beige beetle.
Gorgeous blue butterfly hanging around the banister of our room.
Copper and black beetle.
Long, narrow green and black snake.
The park people said it wasn’t leech season, but we had more than a few take a stab at our shoes. This one is on Kel’s sock (photo taken after the sock is off her foot).
What is this anyway? It was small like a ladybug.
One badass caterpillar.
Tags: Malaysia
Kelly & Marcus
June 17th, 2005 at 7:21 am
You guys sure seem to like your creepy crawlies! I just had a “Stand By Me” flash back!
June 18th, 2005 at 6:02 am
Thankfully the leeches didn’t get us. We’re going to try to buy leech socks tomorrow.
Kelly had the Stand By Me theme song running through her head the whole walk back.
Marcus thinks he has a future career as a critter photographer.
June 18th, 2005 at 4:02 pm
Good idea about the critter book! What happened to the leech (Kel’s favorite if I recall) socks that you had before? Good luck finding them – the socks, the leeches have already found you!
xoxoxo