Primates

Well we've just had our first week off and have been seeing some of the nearby places. Bako national park was our first stop for an over-nighter. We drove the 45 mins up to the coast and then it was onto a boat for a 20 min ride to the park. It did feel rather like going into Jurassic park, very exciting. An amazing place. Dense jungle, with plenty of established trails for hiking, and lots of interesting flora and fauna to be seen.
We were not disappointed: Macaques, leaf-eater and proboscis monkeys were all there to behold. I've only ever seen proboscis monkeys on TV and thought they were very strange looking beasts, but I was wrong; they were so beautiful up close, the colour of their fur, the way they moved, their expressions...everything about them was majestic and magnificent. We also saw quite a lot of macaques, which as usual were quite cheeky and liked to steal stuff. Still wonderful to observe, even if they have become somewhat corrupted by humanity.

Watching me watching you

The sunlight enhancing the beauty of the golden fur

Large alpha male had just miss-timed his jump and nearly fell,
he then hung like this for long enough to get this shot,
 he was rather excited as you can see.

He then sat eyeing me up, and became quite aggressive, so I moved away

They had this wonderful habit of using the aerial roots of the mangroves as stools

Conveniently placed leaf, he's looking for stuff to pinch.

And he scores a friend's apple core

two young ones playing around

Look what I found!