Santubong River Cruise

River Cruise along Santubong Wildlife Reserve on 13 December 2007

At last the weather held after waiting for two days. The waters around the reserve was choppy when we arrived in Kuching on 11 December.
It was certainly worth the wait if you are the adventurous and outdoor type as the 3-4 hours motorboat ride screamed for activities unless you enjoy it. Jaya. our guide was particularly eager to show us around and his interest in wildlife showed.

Mt Santubong itself is not very high but has that mysterous look about it. Along the way. we were in the lookout for the irrawaddy river dolphins but failed to see any one of them, just hard luck as the weather itself was beautiful. Even waiting around the fishermen drew no results as they are supposed to feed on the throw-overs from the fishermen when the latter draw up their nets.

Within a few minutes of taking off from the jetty, we saw the first estaurine crocodile on the bank, sunning itself. On closer approach it scrambled into the water. We saw another 4 wildlife crocodiles along the river bank of the wetland but they were smaller critters compared to the first.

There are other birds and creatures along the banks and forested areas of the wetland and mangrove swamps but we could not see much of them, not least the proboscis monkeys which inhabited the forest area.
Overall, it was a worthwhile trip to one of Sarawak's mangrove wetlands.