Linda and her husband often walk around MacRitchie reservoir - about 13 km. Ellen frequently joins them - and discovered the Treetops Bridge and so today this was my adventure. What an adventure - camera, tripod, umbrella, flash - and about 6 hours of walking / photos

A map of the TreeTop trail. We started in the upper right and I finished in the lower middle section

Here is the plan and specifications of the TreeTop suspension bridge. Just like the Ravenel Bridge - there are two backspans and a mainspan. Unlike the Ravenel Bridge - the mainspan is 150 m and instead of 8 lanes - there is one, width = 80 cm

The backspan with Ellen in front

Just to give you some idea of the scale - here is a tree - about 30 meters high - like the length of Manny's boom on his crane

and a view from the bridge

The mainspan

Looking back from the other end

This is a one way bridge

and looking up one of the suspension cables

the backspan exit

and the walkway - from the bridge to the forest / jungle

Bees in action - part 1

part 2

part 3

and steps down into the forest

It is monsoon season - so some interesting photos of flowers with water drops (about an hour later - there was a serious rain

Here is what in the US we would call a grasshopper. Here, I call them either a flower hopper or leaf hopper. This one is a flower hopper

from behind

and from the side - just like a grasshopper - except there is no grass in this rain forest

and from the front - very cooperative leafhopper

An interesting web

and all about catepillars - not the kind Michael and Jackie drive

This was just a fun photo

A dragon fly with 1 pair of wings

and a dragon fly with 2 pairs of wings

from the top

another fun photo

another from the top

From the side

and from the front

A butterfly

and Nephila maculata - a cousin of Nephila clavipes that lives around Charleston

Actually - wife at the bottom and two husbands (orange blobs) near the top

She can dance

Husband #1

and husband #2