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The Eyes Have It

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Technically, I was on a birding trip in Borneo although I was here for the primates and more.  Rod set up two trips – one for birding and the other for primates – but the primate trip was canceled and I moved into the birding trip since it followed the same basic itinerary and I knew I could find other things to do when the birding became monotonous and the primates were hiding.  Although I love birds and I do enjoy a day of birding, I now know full-well that I am not a birder and as far as I am concerned birding is for the birds 🙂

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Blood-Sucking Leeches

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

I woke up one morning in Danum Valley in the heart of Malaysia’s Sabah on the island of Borneo and noticed blood all over my sheets. I quickly yanked back the covers expecting to find a horse’s head, but, of course, there was not. Yikes, I checked my parts to make sure they were OK and everything seemed fine until I found the source on the side of my torso. Two punctures were caked with blood and they looked like a snake bite. That led to a quick check for a snake, but then I realized that I had no pain, the blood was still having trouble coagulating and this could only have been caused by a BLOOD-SUCKING LEECH!

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Real-time Photography

Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Finally!  I am presenting photos while still at the source.  I worked very hard on my photography skills the past two weeks here in Borneo and I was also able to process the thousands that I took to boil it ... [Continue reading this entry]