The best part came when I spotted a fruiting climber. It had a few bundles of small green grape-like berries hanging along the stem and the leaves were heart-shaped. Its leaves resembled that from another climber which also bear berry-like fruits, Cyclea laxiflora. For Cyclea laxiflora, its fruits were arranged in loose bundle while that from the current climber was much more compact. In addition, the leaves were not hairy at all when compared to those from Cyclea laxiflora. Knowing that it was likely to be from the Menispermaceae family, it was not too difficult to track down its identity --- Stephania capitata.

If not because of the height and the thick vegetation, the sighting of a mid-size elongated melon-like fruit in mid-air would be another exciting discovery. Despite several attempt and different approaches, I was not able to get through the vegetation to get a good picture of the lone hanging fruit from the climber, Trichosanthes elmeri.

On top of that, there was a huge thorny fallen rattan palm that stretched across the already congested vegetation. There were bundles of reddish fruits along its stem but my focus was to get to the melon. I had thought that it was a Calamus melanochaetes where I had already taken quite a lot of good pictures in the past. Later, the rattan palm turned out to be Calamus gracilipes, which I still lacked some clearer pictures of the fruits. Fortunately, in my attempt to conquer the thorny palm, I did take a few pictures of its reddish fruits.

Eventually, I had to satisfy with a few blurry melon pictures and hope to have a btter luck the next time round. The melon picture on the left was the touch-up version, where the original picture was almost pitch dark.

There were at least three of this unknown trees (pictures below) that were flowering profusely with strands of flower stalks hanging from the smaller branches. From the appearance of the flowers, it might be from the Euphorbiaceae family. [Update: Osmelia philippina; Family: Salicaceae]

Despite the warm weather, there were still many creatures moving around. The few that I managed to take some shots were as follows: (1) Stick insect; (2) Moth (Erebus hieroglyphica); (3) Darkling Beetle; (4) Wasp (probably from the family Aulacidae); and (5) Grey Pansy butterfly (Junonia atlites atlites). The Grey Pansy butterfly was considered rare and this was the first time that I managed to take its picture. The moth was also uncommon according to a published article.