Pictures from weekends away from home at Lambir

Happiest having made the trek from Innoue trail, happier still with the prospect of checking out several waterfalls along the way.


One of the small waterfall which required a short detour from the Pantu Trail, any chance to cool off is an well appreciated break from the trek.


Lambir's ubiquotous palm.


"The attack of the giant praying mantis!" It's surprising how diverse the insect life is at a national park like Lambir ... turn on your porch lights at nite, and they'll all come crawling from all corners of the forests.


A butterfly sucking up some very much needed mineral supplements from rather unsavoury sources (to us humans anyways).


The serene and scenic 1st waterfall along the Latak main trail. And there's a long stretch of slippery sandstone slide going downhill. Caution : slippery when wet.


A beautiful woody mushroom, this thing can grow right in front of your eyes.


An unidentified bloom along the Latak main trail.


Is it a fly, is it a spider, is it bird poop? It's a fly eating bird poop spider!


This mushroom just grew out of a thick tree trunk ... what can be more amazing about life in the damp forest.


Termite mounds.


A shady creek along the Latak main trail, several waterfalls breaks the water's journey downhill.


Latak Waterfall, 30 ft drop into a serene deep green pool, off-limit to swimmers.

Nazeri Abghani/MNS Miri/May2010

Rainforest Drama at Your Doorsteps : The Snake and The Gecko

This happened in July 2008 when my daughter and me were invited by our neighbours to visit Lambir Hills National Park. We live in Miri but don’t visit the park enough.

On this occasion we were resting at the Latak Waterfall, the one with the picnic grounds. While we were standing there we heard ‘plop’ and saw the tree snake that had fallen from the trees struggling with its prey, a gecko. The pictures tell the whole story.

In the end the snake was so disturbed by the attention he (or she?) received that he/she left its prey and swam across the water.

One of the bystanders was so kind to throw the snake’s picnic lunch to the other side of the stream.

You may ask why we only now come with this story and pictures: the reason is that I found out recently that one of the photographers at the event, a 14-year old Dutch boy, received a recommendation from the 2009 BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest (see Link) for a picture of the same event!

As a member of the MNS I thought it might be good to share my pictures with you. The pictures were taken with a Nikon D50 with the standard 18-55 mm lens.

Liv Jorunn van der Toorn/MNS Miri/May 2010













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