photos!

hello vast audience

i went to the forest and it was rubbish. but here are some photos!



this is on the way; from Kandy to Colombo the main road goes through a big pass, and when you're on the other side you get views like this! I'd like to find out where that is and go there, but well, the alternative is sitting round on my arse posting rubbish on the tinternet, so you can tell which is going to win.

on with the post!



this is the plot where i spend most of my time. this is serious virgin forest, and man it's untidy. there's logs and leaves and crap everywhere. it's called a plot because all the trees are numbered. this is dead handy, because if you're completely lost, running out of food and losing your mind you can always look at the base of a tree, pull up the tag and read...164075. which is a great comfort obviously.

note sunshine - this is freakishly unusual, the next period of sunshine in Sinharaja is estimated to occur in 2009. the next picture shows more normal weather conditions:



there is 5 and a half METRES of rain a year. that is 16 FEET, or something. when you consider even south brent probably only gets about 5 metres this is clearly an unnatural quantity of water, and should be stopped.

the green hut in the background is the kitchen by the way, that is where i burn wellies to make tea (unfortunately no pictures of burning welly).

joe