Hedley's Trip

In 1980, Hedley and his family decided to take a trip to the Niah caves. Hedley went with his wife and elder daughter from Brunei. They traveled by car and traveled by a ferry to cross the river to take the car with them to the other side of the river. Hedley and his family set out in the morning and arrived by sunset. They stayed at the guest house and thanks to a local man and his son in Niah they reached to the guest house before night to settle in with his family and rest. The next day , they all went to the caves which smelled really bad because of the birds which made the caves their bird toilet. But the most spectacular scene they saw was men climbing in the caves and the reason why they climbed was to collect the bird nests to sell them to the Chinese to make their bird nest soup. They returned to Brunei after seeing the caves. Hedley's high during the trip was when he saw the men collecting those birds nests and his low is when the car broke down and he could not change the gear transmission to reverse and had to push the car if he wanted to go to reverse.