hello everyone. Just a quick blog to keep you upto date with everything out here. Nearly comingto the end of my trekking rotation. Has been really good, we have had an excellent ranger, Gabili, who klknows so much about the jungle and has taught us a lot. The first 5 days we were doing surveys of orangutan nests. One of our treks included walking to a natural water hole and so we had a dip in the fresh water.althugh we were convinced there were leeches and snake...

Got back from Sipadan yesterday - was absolutelyamazing!! We had our last day at the outdoor nurseery on tuesday which was good, we did our usual things & it was nice beeing with the orangs for the last time in our rotation. We were lucky to be involved in catching Mimi (mum)andRonny (baby) who are semi wild orangs. Ronny had a bit of string caught around his arm so it needed to be cutoff, but Mimi wouldnt let rangers near it as protective over baby. so we t...

If it weren'tfor all the rice and noodle i think i would have losta lot of weight by now!!No more lazing by the pool, we have all been hard at work!! imat the outdoor nursery for my first 9 day rotation which started on monday. this is the last stage of the rehab process for the orangs, theyre 5 years and upwards and there are 17of them. Our day consists of trekking throught the jungle to feeding platforms which are situtated at different places in the jungle (ge...

hello from Sepilok!! Arrived here (sandakan) on wednesday afternoon. Guest House is different from Rasa Ria (LOL) but excellent, more realistic rather than 5*. Sat here with gheckos crawling around the room and still very hot. Yesterday (Thursday) we had a tour by John, one of the people 'looking after us' out here, of Sandakan. We went to a Crocodile farm which we were prewarned was not up to our environment standards for the crocodiles. A few of our group chos...

Hi all!! Finally got on the internet to update you all! Arrived in Kota Kinabalu on Saturday early evening (to rain, I guess you'll be pleased to know!), had a very long flight and lots of waiting, made the most of the time by sleeping!!! We were taken by a taxi/minibus to our hotel Tang Dynasty in KK, a very squished journey but luckily it wasnt too long! Put in rooms of two - I was with Helen....who talked to her soft toy lamb at night and told him about her d...