Rawa Danau III

Going around through the swamp with the Polisi Kehutanan for the Habitat-assessment

Rawa Danau II

A few advantages of the life as a biologist:
1. the view from the place I'm staying:

2. my workplace (all you can see and even more):

3. on the way to my desk:

4. one of my countless desks:

Rawa Danau I

At the moment I'm at Rawa Danau, a lake that silts up in Northwestern Java (at the moment in the state of swamp). There, some Black-Winged Starlings will be released. Here we're just putting up the Release-cage.

this way and similar are the views over there...

This ain't original!

One of the countless Agriculture-Custombikes here. So you can drive around with even more ricebags on your bike. The green plastic-container is the new tank. Those bikes are officially not even allowed in Indonesia. But no one cares...

Cikananga VIII

Medicine-check and measuring of a confiscated leopard

Cikananga VII

Market in Sukabumi

Cikananga VI

and that's what I'm doing during daytime: build nestboxes for the upcomimg release

Art/ Commercial break

Not much to do these days in the evenings. Means there's lots of time to mess around with old pictures

Idul Fitri

Ramadhan is over. This is being celebrated by drumming and shooting fireworks the whole night in front of the mosque. As the Indonesians working for PPSC are all muslims and spend the whole night at the mosque we went there to have a closer look at the show. Most of us drummed a bit with them aswell. A video of the bamboo-canons with whom they shoot the fireworks is in progress.

Wipeout Competition Results

It was absolutely exciting until the end. An incredible amount of people voted and in a switch at the last moment, one competitor decided the race for himself.
Here we go, the official results of the Wipeout Competition:
(german+english blog votes)

1. Takeoff I	0 Votes  (0%)
2. Nosedive	0 Votes  (0%)
3. Takeoff II	0 Votes  (0%)
4. failed Floater	5 Votes  (50%)
5. Moment of impact	1 Vote   (10%)
6. Bottomturn	3 Votes  (30%)
7. Clipped I	1 Vote   (10%)
8. Clipped II	0 Votes  (0%)

And the Winner ist the failed Floater. Sorry, Paho! You put on a great performance this day but unfortunalety it wasn't enough. Your explosive Bottomturn reached second place with 3 votes.
Thanks to the Voters for taking part in this glorious Poll. See you again at the Best Wipeouts of 2013! Submissions like the following (Bottomturn: unidentified/ Java) are open from now on

Wipeout Contest

always beautiful Surfpics.... BOOOORING!!!!

Therefore now the ultimate compilation of the most beautiful wipeouts of the last 8 month. Just so you got something to do aswell you can vote which one is the most beautiful/ worst wipeout. Just vote on the right side. You can vote multiple times if you can't decide on only one. The most beautiful wipeout gets, öhhhm, I don't know yet, suggestions welcome. Okay, now have fun laughing and crying of empathy...


1. Takeoff I: unidentified/ Taiwan

2. Nosedive: Jeroen/ Bali

3. Takeoff II: Paho from Finland/ somewhere in Indo

4. failed Floater: Jeroen/ somewhere in Indo 

 5. Moment of impact on the back: Jeroen/ somewhere in Indo
       (after that the camera couldn't shoot more pics because it had to laugh so hard)

6. Bottomturn: Paho (Finland)/ somewhere in Indo

 7. Clipped  I : Jeroen/ somewhere in Indo

8. Clipped II / over the falls: Jeroen/ Sumbawa

more from the freetime

on the way back from the beach

that's how the balcony looks like

time off !!

Just a short time off and the boy is back in the water...

Oops, Airdrop! (Sorry to the Non-Surfers to use surfslang)

 

 where there is joy there is CARNAGE!!

and more CARNAGE!!

Indonesia XXV

That's how your shoes will look like if there are no rubberboots in size 46

after work before driving home back into the valley

How to... make climbing more exiting

You always hear ''the strongest muscle in climbing is the head''. Here, a hold got a bit modified by a big nest of wasps to intensify the experience

Indonesia XXIV

On the way to work with a freshly confiscated net from some birdcatchers

 everywhere the little holes of the illegal mines...

 somewhere searching the bird...

Indonesia XXIII

Search for the Black-Winged Starling in Pongkor. Because the territory belongs to a mining corporation I mustn't walk alone. Therefore Fitri and Tyria went with me.

here crossing a river

yeah, Indonesia... everywhere on the land of the mining corporation illegal mines

That's how 38% inclination look like. Shortly after that the two got themselves picked up by a car and I walked the rest of the day withsomeone else