Graptolite - Finds the Ginger People
Graptolite's Sailing Log
Martyn Pickup & Heike Richter
Fri 28 Nov 2008 14:37
Thursday was mostly spent traveling to other towns to get money from elusive
cash machines.
Today, the Graptonauts chartered a speedboat and native guide and raced
40-odd miles up the Sekonyer River through the Borneo jungle. The
destination was Camp Leakey, an orangutan research station and sanctuary in
the Tanjung Puting National Park.
There were plenty of the ginger chaps strolling about through the forest
eating bananas. There were big intimidating males with flappy faces and even
more of the downtrodden-looking females holding tiny orangutan babies with
wide-eyed and bewildered expressions. Unfortunately they don't stand too
much chance of being around much longer with all the illegal logging and
forest clearance going on.
There were also gibbons swinging about but no proboscis monkeys as it's a
bit flooded for them at this time of year. There were also lots of
butterflies and there should be some good pictures posted eventually.
M