Come and experience a little bit of Myanmar (Burma) at the next meeting of the Sunshine Coast Natural History Society, at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 1 during a presentation by Rand Rudland.
Recently Rand and Elise Rudland took a 17-day natural history and cultural tour to Yangon, Inle Lake, Sankar Village, Mount Victoria, Bagan, Kalaw and the Moeyungyi Wetlands and many points in between. With local guide Lay Win they visited many ancient Buddhist shrines, witnessed numerous novitiation processions and gazed in awe at the golden Shwedagon Pagoda. At the Ramsar site wetlands in Moeyungyi, they experienced a golden sunrise from their long narrow boat amongst multitudes of herons, storks, bitterns, swamphens, ibis and pratincoles, while local fishermen plied their skills in many different fishing styles, likely catching some of the fish to be had for dinner that evening.
Rudland has practised medicine for 30 years on the Sunshine Coast. Lately, he has been more involved in short-term locums in Northern Canada, ranging from Alberta to Newfoundland. He travels extensively and has an insatiable interest in taking pictures of remote destinations and wildlife of all kinds, from mammals to birds, frogs to dragonflies and butterflies to grasshoppers.
