Badly's photos

A jungle tree standing on its tip-toes

A collection of fruits and nuts on the beach at Pulau Tiga. Top left is a sprouting coconut.

The restaurant/bar/storm shelter at Pulau Tiga. This is the 'paradise island' where they filmed 'American Survivor' See where this picture was taken. [?]

Internal flight from Sandakan to Kota Kinabalu. View of Mt Kinabalu's peak

A big kingfisher waits patiently to be photographed on the Kinabatangan river See where this picture was taken. [?]

The entrance of Gomantong Cave. The brown stuff on the floor is bat and swiftlet poo, several feet thick. The nest harvesters could sell it for fertilizer, but they leave it because it makes a soft landing when they fall off their ladders. People live in here all year round, to protect their bird's-nest interests. On a good day in the nest-harvesting season, one collector can gather 10,000 ringgits (£1500) worth of nests. And yes, it stinks.

Lovely cockroaches on the wall of Gomantong Cave. They live on the droppings of swiftlets and bats and, presumably their carcasses.

At Gomantong Caves where men climb up to collect swiftlet's nests for bird's-nest soup. Note the coiled ladders See where this picture was taken. [?]

Long-tailed macaque considers a life of crime

On the Kinabatangan river. Early morning trip up a tributary. Joe spotted this Cat Snake who'd just had dinner

On the Kinabatangan river. Evening trip up a tributary

Darters - about the size and habit of cormorants

On the Kinabatangan river, Sukau, evening.

On the Kinabatangan river heading towards Sukau. Male Proboscis monkey high up in the trees

On the Kinabatangan river heading towards Sukau. Note microwave dish aerial and mosque

On the Kinabatangan river heading towards Sukau. Rare encounter with pygmy elephants on the bank

On the Kinabatangan river heading towards Sukau. Note the village loo floating on the water

Four opposable thumbs