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| Male Orang-utan |
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| Sandra with baby |
Our second day of trekking started
with steep uphill but we were ready and so were the guides.
They split up immediately and the young one
went looking for Orang-utans and the head guide lead us uphill slowly.
They kept in touch via cell phones and we
soon had a destination.
Even the guides
get excited about an Orang-utan viewing.
Because I’m chief photographer I had to run after the young guide and we
went way past our destination.
Then we
had to turn around and run back.
Spotting an Orang-utan in a tree is not easy.
Unless they move, they are very well camouflaged.
Eventually we caught up with a male Orang-utan and
tracked him for about 30 minutes. He never came down so I have no good
portraits.
We continued our trek and
came across a mother and baby.
Sandra
the mother is 20 years old and the baby was 2 months old.
The mothers stay with the babies for 6
years.
Sandra was carrying her baby
under her arm so we saw him but he was so small we could only see limbs
sticking out.
I was taking pictures and
checking the results when I notice spots on the pictures.
When I checked the lens it was dripping with
sweat.
I tried to wipe it clean but
that made it worse.
All the clothing I wore was soaked with sweat. I had to pull a dry
sweatshirt out of my bag to dry my lens.
Sandra put on quite a good show so we followed her for 30 minutes and
then called it a day.
Our guides certainly
listened to us.
We had a lunch we had
requested and a descent from the mountaintop that Tarzan would have been proud
of.
Later in
the afternoon I was lazing in the hammock on our balcony when two monkeys
visited me. The male put on quite a
show. He humped the female 4 times in
15 minutes and then rested. The female
was a bitch. She was very aggressive
and charged me 5 times. Since I was
still lying in the hammock with my camera, I flashed her close-up right in the
face. After a truce was declared she
left me alone and I eventually went inside.
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| The Bitch |
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