The Santubong Peninsula viewed from the beach next to the Permai Rainforest Resort near Kuching. All photos by Quentin Phillipps taken December 2017.

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The dense vegetation on the right hand-side of this  restaurant balcony  at the Permai Rainforest Resort, near Kuching hosted a very prolific Ficus laevis along with a poisonous pit-viper.
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Female  Keeled Pit-viper  Tropidolaemus subannulatus waiting on the ground below the balcony probably for a rat to pass by. These snakes have a venomous bite that can prove fatal.

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