Simon at Sepilok

Last night we took the Rangers from the Rasa Ria Nature Centre to a cafe to say "Thankyou" for putting up with us for the past 3 days. An unexpected bonus was a re-run of the CFC v Colchester cup tie on a big TV near our table.

Not much else to say about the night except that the food was good (nice Kung Po Chili Chicken) , everyone had a great time and the Tiger was well and truly tamed ;-)

This morning it was meant to be an early rise to pack up the bags and leave the hell hole of a room (at last!!!). Unfortunately the after effects of the Tiger mauling last night meant we didn't actually leave until 6.45am and therefore missed breakfast at the staff Cafe De Ria.

Nobody at the NIC is looking great today. I wonder why??!!

Morning feed for the Orangs was excellent, mainly because a posse of large Long Tailed Macaques were raiding the food and that meant they stayed close to the observation platform. On the way back afterwards, Mowgley decided to unload a aromatic brown present all down the front of my shirt. The others all thought that was hilarious. You'll be pleased to know i'm not putting a picture of that on here...!!

Well, just had lunch and gotta go back to work for our last afternoon, then it's a quick shower and change and off to KK airport for the flight back to Sandakan. It's been a really mixed past 9 days, some great memories but we can't help thinking that big parts of this stint were a bit off track from the main aims. I guess that's the problem with being guinea pigs - hopefully the later groups will get some benefit from our feedback.