Les Journal Photographique! (Borneo)

I suppose that we owe you some photos don't we? Well, here they are! We have been quite busy doing nothing, but unfortunately, the places that we did nothing had no internet. Now, we have a down day, and internet, and time, and desire! That's a perfect combo for effective blogging!

Here are a few photos that you haven't seen. They're a bit out of date, but still worth showing you.

First up, Borneo. (phhhh... that was soooooo two countries ago)

We went into the biggest cave in the world! It's called Deer cave. Caves are dark, and good photos are hard to come by, but this one turned out. Have you ever seen the BBC Documentary "Planet Earth"? Do you remember the scene with all the cockroaches swimming in bat poop? Well, this is pretty much that. All the red-brown stuff is bat poop. 3 million bats make lots of poop.

Then we took a boat ride! Look at Corinne's beautifully amused face! We took a boat ride to a drop-off point and walked 8km to our camp. The next morning we started our hike to the pinnacles, which we remember as the sweatiest day of our lives.

Along the way, we saw many variety of interesting plants and animals. But the coolest plant has to be the pitcher plant (its also on the "Planet Earth" show). It fills with water and bugs go in it, but they can't get out because of the plant's waxy inner coating and then the carnivorous plant digests it.

Our route was demanding to say the least. Although the trail was only 2.4 km long, it was also 1.2 km up. Past the first 200 metres, I don't think there was a span of five steps during which we didn't have to put our hands down or pull our selves up. In a few particularly steep places, there were ladders.

This is us at the top. Borneo is very limestoney, and very rainy, so there are lots of caves and cool rock formations. The rain has worn these rocks down to a sharp point. It has been described as "the worst parachute landing site in the world".

See! Sharp and pointy! This rock is like five feet high, but only that thin. This photo also demonstrates another quality of our hike... humidity! The humidity fogged our camera lens. It also was a main contributor to the sweatiest day of our lives.

There were many, little pinnacles along the path. They were tough on Corinne's shoes. They are now in a Borneo garbage bin somewhere.