Mist covered trees at the park

View of trees at Botanic Island Two, from Licuala Hill.

View of trees at Botanic Island Two, from Licuala Hill.

It is cold in the morning nowadays.  While other parts of Peninsular Malaysia are facing their worst floods since two decades ago, Sarawak is preparing for the worst scenario in the next week or so.  Even in earlier times, Odoardo Beccari writing in 1865 noted that Bintulu had the lowest day temperature at sea level compared with other areas in Sarawak ( on the island of Borneo).  He noted in his travels while at Bintulu that the temperature before sunrise was at 19.45 degrees Celsius.  At the park this phenomena is year round and in many mornings the temperature is extremely cold, bringing in a  misty envelope over the trees.