Hedley’s trip to the Niah Caves
At dawn on one of those vacation days in 1980 Hedley and his family, which at that time only consisted of him and his wife and their daughter Kate, went on a journey to the Niah caves in Malaysia, from Brunei which was where they lived.
At the dawn of that day he started his car and drove until he arrived at the ferry; then they got onto the ferry to a Malaysian village which had no hotel nor any person they knew and it was the late afternoon or dusk at that time so Hedley asked a man from the village to drive him to the government rest house because at that time Hedley was a government officer so he could stay at one these houses.
On the morning of the next day Hedley and his family had go on foot to the huge caves where he saw something most of the people who went there didn’t see the birds’ nests scraping, which is a process where the birds’ nests are being scrapped from the roofs of the caves, to sell them in special markets.
On the same night Hedley and his family returned to Brunei excited after this small adventure which they had done by foot, ferry, boat and car .