Day 107 Mulu Clearwater & Wind cave

Every national park seems to have a star attraction and for Mulu it is the massive caves. Today we visited two show caves Wind cave & Clearwater cave, we took the option to walk to the first cave from HQ rather than take the boat with the guide and rest of the group so it meant an early start to meet them on time. After rushing down some breakfast we were on the trail before 8am, it was a tough walk with 1000 steps which were so slippery crawling might have been faster & would have hurt Rachel less when she fell hitting the same elbow bruised from Kuching's stairs. It took just over an hour to Wind cave and we passed through a cave called Moonmilk on the way. The guide took us through Wind cave then on to Clearwater cave which was massive with a crystal clear river running through it.
Tim went for a swim where the river from the cave came to the surface outside, then we walked back to camp HQ just catching the end of lunch service at 2:30pm. On the way back we saw some large amazing butterflies on the ground in the sun so spent ages taking photos!
We then got the key to the bird watching tower in the forest, its 20 metres up amongst the taller trees but a good 10metres short of giving a view over the canopy. Nothing much was seen up there so back to HQ to chill before dinner & the night walk.
At 7pm under cloudless sky the guide took us round on the 1st night walk in 5 days due to the evening rains. We saw some large spiders including a big huntsman, several stick insects, sleeping birds(kingfishers & others) super size crickets, centipedes & frogs(tree & ground). it was a great night walk we also finally found the insects making all the noise at night, no mammals on this walk though.
A massive day today on the trail before 8am and home after 9pm that will burn off some of the McD's we had in Kuching!