Research break

Campaign 1 ended in early May but we're back at Danum Valley mid June to resume measurements and hopefully have some more interesting wildlife encounters!

visitors to the site

An orang utan came across our site today, mum and baby! she wasn't very happy to find us but it was amazing seeing her move around the trees with a big baby in tow.
I've been avoiding writing anything football related on here but after the dissappointment of Carlisle United dropping out of the top two on Saturday, with only one match to go, it's great to see 2 Carlisle players in the league one PFA team of the year! Fingers crossed things go our way and we make it to the championship....???!!!! Now back to the pictures:

A sea of clouds to admire from the top of the tower.


These butress roots were just incredible.

In the rainforest, even gas cylinders can look artistic.

Horse play

FAGE disco!

Party aftermath.

Tea at the tower.
Don't you think you've had enough Anoop?

Alex, one of the research assistants who's one of the unlucky one's who has to drive us to the site at 5:30am

Kate, a beer and a green millipede.
The emergency fleece!

Team Danum Valley against OP3. Quite possible the worst football pitch in the world, half of it is a swamp! It's 1-1 so far, next saturday is the decider.

Powercut crosswords

The local bearded pig looking for a pair of pink heels! James Lee had better watch out

Jungle Life

Lisa making friends with a millipede (it's the centipedes that are dangerous)

Jungle Life

Hats glorious hats!

This morning there was an Orang Utan stuffing his face on figs less than 5 mins from where we live! They move unexpectedly slowly.




A day off at Borneo Rainforest Lodge , we saw orang utans and i got my 1st leech bite! YUK!!!

Swinging above the canopy at 30 m!

Jungle safari - our daily commute!

Amazing clouds from the GAW tower

The Danum Valley Field Centre (where we live)

Choosing the best route for the boat race (with leech socks all round)

Scorpions and sunrise

A sea of spider webs at dawn in front of the DOAS tower


Hilke and Pete enjoy the top of the tower at sunrise


He doesn't look big but this scorpion look mean, and was right by the centre fence! Our first encounter with a dangerous creature and last night someone saw a cobra too.

Life up at the site

Pete made it to the top of the tower today (100m), as the white FAGE container continued measuring


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