The current heat wave in Raub coupled with renovation works being done surely aren't the best things that happened to this site. I was back for a visit last week and horrors of horrors, everything was dusty, cementy, soil freshly dug here and there, locals and tourist jamming up the place, adding on rubbish and detritus, cars everywhere despite the no entry sign erected...phew! And so the one good place that I cherish succumbs finally to the temptation of tourist dollars or whatever that came its way. All I could retain was an image of total chaos of this once serene place. For nostalgia sake, I am putting up some photos taken on 1st of February this year. Hopefully when I pick up some courage later on, things will be better...
A temporary bridge made from logs across a shallow gully...
Dry season = clear water
A strange waxy camelia-like flower of a woody shrub growing overhanging on a boulder by the stream.
The same flower...
A birdnest among the senduduk bush...
Already an egg...two weeks later, neither the nest nor the egg were to be found at the same spot. When will people learn to be more responsible?
A bed of spaghnum moss...
Fungi
A half eaten nut on the forest floor. Clues of arboreal activities...
Strange fruit of the forest.
A stick insect.
Inflorescences on the crown of a woody shrub...
Pale indigo flowers...
A rather drab butterfly sunning itself.
A strange beetle sunning itself on a leaf.
A Centaur Oak Blue butterfly.
