Scott got up early this morning and went out on the hammock, I couldn't open my eyes so I had an extra hour in bed but turns out I missed watching the monkeys play in the trees. Scott was watching them for ages swinging about but wasn't sure what ones they were because they were brown little things.

It rained really heavy last night to the point we couldn't hear each other talking and we were say next to one another! Don't have a great night sleep because we were both tossing and turning. The bed is made of bamboo so it creeks really loud every move you make!

We had breakfast down at the restaurant, I had banana porridge - delicious!
We sat on the porch and relaxed for a little while and I faffed about with some washing and what not. Turns out that what Scott saw earlier was indeed a white handed gibbon. They are so rarely seen here, just heard!
We got the pleasure of seeing two again after breakfast, they were eating and swinging in the trees. My camera was good enough to zoom right in and we managed to get a few good photos of their faces and hanging in the trees! They were hanging about for ages! It was so nice to watch them! We have been really lucky with seeing the gibbons here! We have been searching for them for so long on every jungle trek we go on and we didn't think that we would ever be this lucky!

After scoping out the gibbons for a while we grabbed a spot of lunch and Scott's hawk eyes managed to spot an orrangutan making a best high up in the trees, it was hard to spot and the camera couldn't get a good enough photo because it was sort of his behind the leaves but it was most definitely there!

Hot and bothered we took a dip in the river, couldn't believe how strong the current was! It was fun floating down in parts where you didn't slide over the rocks. It was hard to stop yourself once the water began to take you! I was drying off and basking in the sun on the side when Scott jumps on to an Indonesian mans rubber ring and floats down the river! Haha. Bloody loonatic, he was gone bouncing over the rapids with him!
We took another dip and tried to
Scope out some more monkeys but weren't successful.

We came back showered and chilled out on the porch again. We were going to go down to the cave but we were quite happy to sit and chill and I was happy to faff about doing nothing aswell!
It's nice to be able to sit out in a pleasant and peaceful place, the cities were getting to me a little bit.

We had a sing a long on the hammock - cheesy. I know! But we are big cheese balls!
Just as we were about to go out for food, the heavens open! I don't mean your usual Kuala Lumpur downpour either, this rain was like bullets hitting you! the thunderstorm had just started aswell! We put our ponchos on and walked up the main little alley to Sams bungalow, everyone inside looking I expect thinking what the hell are these pair of butters doing! The alley had soon turned into a stream, with the rain only falling for about 5 minutes!
We were drenched by the time we got to Sams! Laughing it off though we sat the table overlooking the river, the bamboo shutter was down but that wasn't going to stop us from seeing the lightning! Honestly, all the thunderstorms we go on about and we had never experienced one like this! The thunder was so loud! I can't even describe how loud it was only that every time a massive clap of thunder came the lights flickered off and on. The lightning was more sheet lightning, we couldn't see fork lightning anywhere through the trees. There would be about 5-6 sheets of lightning come all at once so it would light the sky up for a few seconds. Those seconds you could see how much the river had swollen. Just in the space of about 15 minutes!
This went on for over an hour! It was so entertaining! I just felt sorry for the monkeys :( I just wanted them to come inside and for me to give them a cwtch!
After around an hour and half the rain eventually stopped but you couldn't tell from being inside because the river was so loud and you could hear all the rocks moving in the river.
On the way back to the room the alley was still a stream but not ankle deep anymore.
Although the garden path to get up to our room was ankle deep! The entire garden was flooded! Scott went into the garden and it was more than ankle deep! We had so much rain in the space of and hour and half!
If hate to think what it's like in monsoon season here!