Wednesday 23rd July
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| Sandakan stilt houses |
We
will be leaving Sandakan soon. John, Catherine and Pete have gone foraging ashore; I have been washing and sweeping, and now I am rushing
to do a blogpost before we disappear (possibly…) out of range.
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| Our own intrepid journey...up a tower on the Rainforest Skywalk... |
Our
kind friend Chee sent me his website; all very interesting, the programs he is preparing -
very ambitious, and it all looks good to me.
Before we left for
the Turtle Islands, we walked into town to find the little (free!) museum (Chee
had shown us where it was; we are very lucky to have such a lot of help.) I love this sort of small, random collection. Upstairs there were some fabulous photos of
Sandakan before the destruction by bombing in WWII. And eclectic items – an old(ish) chain saw, a
relatively new sewing machine, a black telephone, plus some local arts and
crafts.
But downstairs was
the main attraction – a collection of photos and information about Martin and Osa
Johnson, adventurers extraordinaires. They spent a few years in Borneo, flying a
small seaplane into the jungle, making friends (they were, apparently, very much
loved by the locals and by the expat community – Agnes Keith talks very admiringly
about them in her Land Below the Wind.)
They did an epic journey
right up the Kinabatangan River in a small houseboat, replete with dark room.
And they funded
their journeys by making extremely popular docu-dramas. A different world…
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| Our poor little deflating dinghy is still with us...just |
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