[Sabah trip, 31-Mar-2006] We continued our journey to Klias Wetland after our joyous Padas white water rafting. Klias Wetland is famous worldwide for its endangered species of proboscis monkeys.
We arrived at our resort almost evening and hopped on a motorboat where it took us into the mangroves swamp in search of the monkey famous for its big nose.
It’s not easy to spot the proboscis monkeys, and not easy to see it clearly even with a binocular. YM used her 40x zoom camera to took the photo (left), which still required a bit of editing, and that’s as good as it gets.
We spotted a few ’shadows’ of the proboscis monkeys before the sky turned yellowish red, yes it’s sunset, and I always love sunset.
We had some difficulties when getting back to the resort, our boat engine jammed a few times. Just as we thought we were ending the day with bad luck, we saw something clipping from the trees.. Fire flies!
It’s a pretty cool scene to watch, the trees with bit of light clipping here and there, it’s pretty amazing. Too bad our cameras don’t have the ability to catch any photos (or maybe we just didn’t know how to).
We made it just in time to the resort to enjoy the buffet dinner, a bit of seafood and meat, and some great pancakes. We ended the night watching a musical video from Rod Steward, it’s the final night we had in our Sabah trip.
There’s another round of boat trip the next morning, not much excitement as we knew what to expect anyway.
We headed back to Kota Kinabalu, grabbed our luggage and went for a bit of souvenior hunt at the Filipino market before finally heading to the airport.
Ending of a great Sabah trip, I’ll be back again!
April 26th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
can’t seem 2 b any in d pic ??
April 26th, 2006 at 10:34 pm
I wish i could travel =]
April 27th, 2006 at 2:57 am
Tracy.. yes there are, a few in fact :p
Steve.. you can, you just got to work for it.
April 27th, 2006 at 9:31 am
wow.. nice scene photos.
April 27th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
huh.. nice sunset photo..
April 27th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
Hi doraemon
thanks
kuanchong.. yupe it’s nice. I bet you’ll take better photos if you were there, you are the master lol.
April 28th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
I bought my cam today =] It’s a Cyber-shot =/
April 29th, 2006 at 7:13 am
Sony cyber-shot.. that must be dang coool. Have fun with it
April 29th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
Yea I took a few shots to test out the cam, will upload em later, btw the cam is not doing great at night.
April 29th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
I found that slim digicam are all having difficulties when it comes to night.. my friends are experiencing the same issues, me as well.
Perhaps we would need some expert guidance to utilize the digicam fully at night, or just it’s the price to be pay for slim.
April 29th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
I think because normally all slim cams dont allow manual settings and we couldn’t decrease our shutter speed to take all the long exposure scenes..
April 30th, 2006 at 12:08 am
Actually my slim cam does have manual settings but rather complicated.. I’m just to lazy to study my guidebook.