Kerinci Trip Report
March was drawing to a close and I wanted to do something before a planned trip to India in April. Kok Hui had a week of school holidays, and then Jia Sheng noticed that Garuda was having a 2 day sale on tickets!
March was drawing to a close and I wanted to do something before a planned trip to India in April. Kok Hui had a week of school holidays, and then Jia Sheng noticed that Garuda was having a 2 day sale on tickets!
Nine of us met on Saturday, 4 May 2013 for yet another pelagic outing in the Singapore Straits, entering our third year with around 20 trips. It seemed like a long time ago as our last outing was October 2012.
I just got the new Nikon 80-400 AF-S VR lens yesterday, which comes at a good time as I will have a photography trip to India within a week.
At Panti Forest on March 2, we observed a family of Red-bearded Bee-eaters who were very vocal and conspicuous.
Recently I was in Thailand just outside Kaeng Krachan National Park in one of the hides at a waterhole.
Recently I went up to the rice fields at Batang Tiga on the outskirts of Melaka to check out the reported trio of Aquila eagles. I planned to spend one night to break up the driving.
On October 24, 2012, I took Silk Air MI636 to Siem Reap for a week. Silk Air currently flies to Siem Reap everyday of the week, but on some days there is one stop in Da Nang, Vietnam. This was one of those days, but still it was a pleasant flight and I got to see a bit more from the air.
On Saturday, Sept 22, Danny, Kok Hui and I drove up to Malaysia to meet up with Ang to survey the paddyfields at Sungai Rambai, also known as Batu Gajah or Merlimau, two towns in the area.
Meeting on October 13 at 6:00 am at One Degree North marina we set out promptly reaching Sisters Islands at 6:15 am. We were the first to clear immigration, and were off to a good, but hazy start.
Another in the series of NParks sponsored surveys of the Straits of Singapore got underway shortly after 6:00am on Saturday, September 15th. The dawn was good and it would stay rainless the entire day, but rather hazy; and it grew quite hot and humid as there was almost no breeze. At times the sea was glassy smooth.
