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Dear Friends, I had a really great time with The Sabah Society last week. It was busy, interesting and inspiring. It started off on Thursday 11.8.2011 with a talk on Coffee by Mr. Yap Cheen Boon. It was held at 7.30pm in the Sabah Society and was an excellent talk. Not only was Mr. Yap 
Dr Ikki has studied the proboscis monkey for some years now, along with his colleagues Dr Henry Bernard from UMS and Mr John Sha from Singapore. Their book The Natural History of the Proboscis Monkey was launched earlier in the day. The estimated numbers of the monkeys in Borneo are +/-6000 in Sabah, <100 in 
Living just outside Kudat on the coast, Ray saw the occasional turtle swim past his house. Why so few? – was the question he and his wife Fran asked themselves. Some time later, after a great deal of thought, they decided they needed to do something about this situation. The first thing they 
29/30 January 2011 The trip really began when the group came together at a coffee shop on the outskirts of Beaufort to have breakfast. Having made the acquaintance of our new friends, Doreen and Tove, and suitably fortified, we continued on to the small village of Weston, where we met up with Richard, our guide 
Tuesday 25th January 2011 Dr Michael Flecker gave an extremely interesting talk about the work of excavating the wreck of the vessel Belitung which was lying in the sand off the south east coast of Sumatra. It was situated close to shore, in 17 metres of water, close to busy waterways and with a Port Photographs, by Flanegan Bainon Flanegan, who specializes in Portraiture and Documentary Photography, talked about his aims when taking photographs for his Series This is Sabah, describing his reasons for capturing that particular moment. These could be historical – recording a moment from a way of life which is fast disappearing, geographical – recording a feature 
Having been brought up in a house with a well tended garden and greenhouse, Peter had an awareness of plants from his earliest years. Later, as a young teacher in Swaziland, he spent a great deal of his free time out on the veld, where he found many, many orchids on the 
The talk on the 12th August to The Sabah Society by Mr Joannes Solidau, the Deputy Director General of City Hall, on the city twinning of Kota Kinabalu and Vladivostok in Russia was one of the best presentations I have attended this year. I was so pleased that I took the time to go out 
This talk by Mr Ken Goodlet took place on Thursday 1st July at the Secretariat. Mr Goodlet taught in Tawau in the late sixties to early seventies and while there became very interested in finding out as much as he could about the area, its history and its people. He researched the history of the 
Twenty six people attended the talk on Thursday 24th June by Dr Clifford Sather. It was interesting to hear that the first written record of the Bajau name was in the 16th Century by Pigafetta, who was Magellan’s chronicler. These Sama people were scattered throughout the Borneo/Philippine areas, the highest densities being in the southern |
 
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