Brenna and I had a great time today at Bukit Merah, Orang-Utan Island. The Luxury bus (with really bad suspension) left this morning at 8:30AM, we got to go over the Penang Bridge where the marathon will be held in November. We arrived, in a place that looked like the Penang version of "Johns Pass" only toned down quite a bit. Brenna found a huge stuffed Pikatchu, that she promptly could not live without, mean daddy said no. We got on the boat for a short ride onto the island, when we arrived we were greeted by the infant Orang-Utans, who were in the Nursery...Brenna fell in love, and saw the sign to adopt them...I had to explain that did not mean we got to take them home.
We toured around the facility and got to see the different stages for the care of the Orang, they are progressively released back into the rain forest. Each step of the process they get less and less human contact, until they finally end up on another island all on their own, just before they go back to the wild. Below is Carlos, he was cool!!
The main group hung out on this little platform on the water, as you can see there was a mom with her baby, and a little spider monkey showed up to raid the fruit pile, until one of the males chased him off and he swam back to shore.
we were all astounded by how human like they are, it was truly an amazing trip to an amazing place. Our boat ride back was really pretty, and I have so many more pictures to share.
We got home and found out that our major leak is fixed and only cost us $50US, so it was a good day on both accounts. We relaxed for few hours and Brenna grabbed a nap (daddy did too). We went out for Hawker Stall food tonight, and it was so good and VERY inexpensive!!
We both ate very well for $10US!! Another great day in Penang!! Goodnight all!!
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