Once again back in Sandakan for the day. Our bus wasn't until late afternoon so we took a nice walk and ended up at a quaint little English Tea House and Restaurant. Very colonial, overlooking the sea and complete with croquet lawn. They had scones, cream and jam on the menu but we'd heard that they were horrible. I couldn't resist the lure of bread and butter pudding. I just never learn. Microwaved with a nice film of hardened custard with added spl...

So after getting back to our lodge we had some breakfast and left to go back to Sandakan. Not before a huge monitor lizard ran out in front of us as we slowly edged our way through the village in the car on the bumpy road along the river. Tom quickly wound his window down while I tried to take a picture but he was too quick. He stopped and took one look at us and ran off! They're pretty darned quick when they want to be! Pretty cool to get that close though....

After about five hours on a bus we were in Sandakan which was going to be our base for a bit as we had a number of things we wanted to do in the area. The journey was beautiful as we drove past Mount Kinabalu surrounded by cloud at the top and through jungle and forest to get there. Up and down across hilly terrain. Very excited to be here! We spent our time organising and booking things we wanted to do over the next week. Tom was excited that we could see bot...