Beautiful nature and work

Every time I pass through this tall oil palm tree while pushing the wheelbarrow loaded with fresh fruit bunches, I'll stop to admire the blooming Coelogyne  asperata sprays. The chains of flowers are now at full bloom stage.  This year I am indeed blessed to be able to take lots of pictures of the orchids in various stages of flowering.  These pictures will be on permanent record in my blog dedicated to orchids. 

With beautiful nature around, hard toil becomes a labour of love.

Home is where the heart is.

 Home is where the heart is. It is walking under very tall palm trees, breaking the silence along narrow jungle paths, touching leaves of a thousand shades, shapes and sizes and admiring the varying colours of sunset

Cover dated 27 April '18 in facebook.

Flash floods and some views of the park in April

Zone F  in heavy rain.

 It has been raining heavily for the last three days (mainly nights).  The parkland is situated on a very hilly area and is the headwaters of a stream, which for convenience I call the Kambatik stream.  The heavy downpour would normally create flash floods.  However, due to its hilly landscape the excess downpour would race downstream.  This event is exciting to watch and offers some fine photographic moments.

After the floods, I walked up the Cempedak Hill and found a lone Plaintive Cuckoo.  This time it is the female of the species, a lifer for me.

Here are some views of the park taken in April’18.

Flash floods at Zone F

Zone B

View towards Zone A, looking east, from Cempedak Hill (Zone G)

Sunday walk in the park

 The morning fresh air blew gently over my face as I walked past the botanic islands. Quietness and peacefulness reigned by the jungle floor where I moved slowly to observe nature.  I am indeed blessed with the presence of wildlife in the park.  It is abut the best place in the world to see nature on an everyday 24x7 basis, and with hardly any cost.  These are kind of benefits I enjoy after about more than 10 years of developing the park.  It is a world of difference when you can step out of your house to discover the unending surprise of nature.  Truly life is worth living everyday when you live with nature's wonders.
For once let the pictures do the talking....

A butterfly mimicking a dry jungle leaf

A Leaf Butterfly

 I am observing for the first time today a leaf butterfly that has the underside patterned like dead jungle leaves. It has even a remarkable short and dark leaf stalk structure at the end of the wings.  The leaf-life underside has deeply ingrained veins.  It was attracted to the rotting Jackfruit from which it was enjoying the liquid nutrition for nourishment.  It was very engrossed in sucking up the liquid that it was not difficult for me to sneak up a close look.  When eating, butterflies throw out their coiled tubular proboscis into the sweet and fleshy pulp of the Jackfruit (see inset).  However it is to be noted that the condition of the Jackfruit is over-ripe and in some parts rotting.  With its wings closed in a vertical position, the butterfly assumes a perfect camouflage of a dry jungle leaf.

Dried and dead jungle leaves with patterns and colours that are mimicked by the leaf butterfly. 

A leaf butterfly with dry leaf-like pattern and colour
Zone C

On, off and away!

The male Black Hornbill is seen leading the flight off the perch to be followed by the female of the species later(  seen at the apex of the tree). Note a pair of  Hill Myna birds sharing the same perch at bottom of picture.
Location : Licuala Hill

Highlights today at the park - 25 June'16

Flowering 'Jering' tree

Orange Stinkhorn fungus

Photoshoot session with the Green-crested Lizard

Model : Green-crested Lizard

Date : 14 April'16

Location : Zone C

Fresh photography

Cempedak and Rambutan freshly plucked for the fun of photography.

Delcious Cempedak fruits

It is only when you live in a fruit garden that you are able to pluck the fruits fresh from the trees and take your time having the shots of your life.  This I call fresh photography.  I enjoy photographing the fresh fruits in the garden this year.  This year the seasonal fruits that do well are the Rambutan and Jering.  Other fruit trees  that produce low harvest are the Cempedak and Lumok.  Anyway, from the photography angle all of the fruits were marvellous.

Juicy and sweet Rambutan fruits

Mouth watering Cempedak fruits

Highlights today at the park - 8 May'15

Flower buds of a jungle tree spreads out in snowflake formation
Location : Botanic Island Two

Oriental Magpie-robin making its early morning calls
Location : Zone F

Flora photography

Flower buds of a jungle tree

Leaf of a jungle tree species

Red flushes of Sea Grape (Coccoloba uvifera)

Early morning light

Zone C

Zone G

Zone A

Zone C