Walk walk with Canon SX50HS

ALL the pictures were taken in SBG with Canon SX50HS.  This camera helps to pull distant object closer but still there are areas i need to get familiar with: Macro focusing in ROI ( region of interest). Zoom is also useless if the lighting is poor degrading the images.

Elaeocarpus angustifolius or blue marble tree in SBG. 

Figs

Inflorescence of Umbrella tree or Schefflera actinophylla 

 Lecuythus ollaria or monkey pot with seeds still enclosed ( and lots of ants)

After the lid fell out the seeds too. Empty pot hanging on tree like flying saucer.

The plantain squirrel nibbling on a oil palm fruit?

The spotted dove ( Streptopelia chinensis) looks on wondering what i am doing with the large keluak fruit..

A young keluak fruit

Pangium edule - common name Keluak or Kepayang.  Only until now i have the chance to touch a fallen big fruit.   Some one carved away to display the seeds inside.  It is as long as my foot and weight 6-7 Kg?

Ayam buah peluak - a peranakan famous dish. Have you tasted before?  The seeds need to be rid of the hydrogen cyanide by repeated washing with water. The poison is removed by boiling water and / formentation ( eg burried in ashes for 40 days).  Image of keluak dish.

Struggling to hold with the fruit point downward. Its heavy !!!

This fellow was resting under the branches of the sausage trees.  Most of the sausages are still in tiny forms.

In Bako Sarawak similar palms were found in Kubah National park. Here in SBG we had different varieties all planted the same area. (The so called ' crocodile's tail'  ekor buaya palm ( Johannesteijsmannia altifrons) can be found here.)

 The palm's inflorescence heads grow close to the base of the palm - tiny flowers and fruits.

Talipot Palm @ SBG May 19 2013

Spectacular fruiting branches before this talipot palm die.  

Profusion of fruits

The fruit is still small

Lets go see!

What else did you see in Yishun Park

Pretty quiet morning. Saw squirrels running from branches to branches and the loud call from kingfisher. The tarap tree not fruiting yet but all the durians are forming. They were flowering a few months before.

Zoom in view of the bundle of durians. They are still very small.

Spotting this fellow flying back and forth to this termite nest. Feeding on termintes or...

Woke up went to the kitchen and found this fellow was calling out to others.

 Found him on roadside old rain tree trunk\

A closer zoom in pic

All images taken using handheld Canon Powershot SX50HS. 

Kuching - Bako Part II - Kubah National Park

Bako National Park ....( continued )

Bird sleeping.....

The yellow orange puff like bird sleeping we were told

At night we tour the pitch dark trail, torches located in the above swallows nesting in a shallow cave.

another view... how on earth the two adult swallows adhere to the cave surface. Adults stay outside and mother/child inside nest?

...  and cave spider

A scorpion centipede

We were told to turn off the torches and thrown in total darkness. Seconds later we saw glows from around us on the forest floor. The glow came from light emitting  mushrooms! ( the white ones in above images)

Bird found alone Lintang trail.  It looks pretty rugged. 

Lintang Trail with no tall tree to shade from the sun. Bring a umbrella - you will not regret it.

ant plant

Ladder leading to the Telok Pandan Kechil Beach

This fellow throws up the sand and will rush into the burrow when approach

Telok Pandan Kechil Beach with Santubong in the distant right centre.

Iron-crust like alien planet

Standing near the ledge looking down at the beach from top.

In and around HQ - Seaside with colorful sandstone formations

Details on the colorful sandstone.

Iron oxide streaks creating a huge canvas of painted wall.

Yet another pretty formation 

textured sandstone

Iron oxide crust

Sandstone with the usual orange yellow color with seams of iron oxide ( brownish black)

KUCHING near the SARAWAK RIVER

Gave me an impression the temple was build on the flat top of another building.

 Fern's shoots - this is belin the tender version as contrast with the paku

Mani-chai ( vegetable) with eggs. A common vegetable. 

You suck out the chewy meaty stuff from one end.

Kubah National Park : Waterfall, Selang trail

Orang hutan destroyed the hinged doors near waterfall changing rooms

Figs littering the forest floor at this spots

View Point ( See below)