Simon at Sepilok

Albert approved the idea of an allowance for dinner instead of eating at Transit, but offered us only 10RM per night. The guy must be on something!! Our meals at Transit cost about 25RM minimum already! We rejected the idea out of hand.
More mutterings of discontent from the troops in Group 1...
Nuff said.
Let's keep it positive from here on... :-)

Fran and Jan's second trip to the platform. Another really good session with the apes.

Some days they can be quite quiet and even just disappear off into the trees but today they were happy to play close to the platform.

Having seen a good number of the feeding sessions now it always amazes me how some people make the trek up to the platform, watch for 5 minutes, take a couple of photos to prove they were there then wander back down. It is mostly the Japanese guests that do this, i mention that purely as an observation - no other agenda! Everyone is free to stay for an hour so why do they leave so quickly? Maybe it's the heat. The sessions usually get better as people leave too, the numbers on the platform start to reduce and the orangutans usually get a bit braver and move closer.
But I was caught out once when i suggested to some people they should want to wait to the end when the orangutans would probably come back from the trees. Of course that day they stayed away. Ranger Lynn just laughed and said that's why they don't try to suggest that to people at all!


Today we were allowed to take cameras with us to the platform so i also sneaked a few shots of the walk down too:


Nice boots Nick...


After the viewing the babies needed a bit of a hose down too...



Tonight the girls joined us and braved the ethnic menu at our "local" cafe Transit - great coconut Fran...