Trees in water

[Antonio Correia]

[Dave Humphries]

Quite a nice arrangement of branches Antonio,

What is the cause?
Looks like permanent flooding; e.g. a valley used as a reservoir, rather than a temporary 'flash flood'.

Cheers,

[Antonio Correia]

It is in from a lake in Malaysia, Langkawi.

It is an artificial one. The trees were there before the flood.

[Antonio Correia]

I found the exact location Dave.

Map

[Antonio Correia]

This was photographed during our travel to Malaysia, Borneo some years ago. We visited a tradicional longhouse - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longhouse#Borneo_longhouse - which you can see in a not so good photograph in Batang Ai National Park http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batang_Ai_National_Park

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=batang...ional+park&z=9

We stayed there for some time talking to people and having a meal. People living in this longhouse were there waiting for us expecting some tips as well as gifts the guide offered.

It almost reminded me like a visit to a house in the suburbs of a large city of the World where poverty co-habits with richness.

[Dave Humphries]

It is an artificial one. The trees were there before the flood.

Ah yes, I thought they looked a bit 'long dead' and had a waterline on them - but I guess they will eventually rot away, collapse and disappear from view.

I am of an age (and place) where such projects in England aren't really within my memory span.
I may have a vague recollection of newspaper headlines about the flooding of a UK valley, but this must have been back in the sixties. I recall from Donald's posts of dams that Scotland were doing such projects in the fifties, but that's about when I was born, so I wasn't reading newspapers then

Thanks,