Crystal Blues

After two months with our friends on the Tulai River, Crystal Blues departed Santubong (Kuching) at 11.00am on Tuesday, bound for Phuket (T...

fiogkaomjon DiGi have simplified registration requirements for "foreigners" who wish to take advantage of their excellent 3G / GP...

This is our third year visiting our friends on the Tulai River, and we thought we'd seen it all....regular readers will already know ab...

Late in May, Crystal Blues returned to the Tulai river, and found the children surprisingly reluctant to swim in the river. Then we discov...

About 6 years ago we purchased the first of three Pelican re-chargeable torches. They're waterproof, lightweight, robust, very brig...

With a little under 4 weeks to go, preparations for this years event are moving ahead. Two local entries in the racing division will have ...

Seven weeks h ave passed since our arrival on the Tulai River. The first few weeks were frantic, including a wedding here at longhouse Ruma...

Afternoons on Crystal Blues are usually busy with "boat school" (English & Mathematics) for the local children. However after...

A rickety elevated plank-walk connects the nearby longhouse to the river, crossing wet padi fields and pushing through a jungle margin at th...

The south-west monsoon "cruising season" has been unusually wet so far - not that we mind, the rain fills our tanks, the clouds k...

In previous entries we reviewed a long range wi-fi transceiver - read the stories here , & here . That system works very well, however ...

Yesterday afternoon we visited Rumah Suring, the longhouse that burned down earlier this year. It was very sad to see the ruins of this once...

We're thrilled to announce that Peter & Maria Langford ( see their wedding blog here ) have a daughter. Nadia Grace Eve Langford wa...

Gawai Dayak is the major festival of the year for Iban people - imagine Thanks Giving and New Year rolled into one. They celebrate the succ...

Coming back to the Tulai River we're reminded of the environmental noise we live with. There is very little human background noise here,...