Well roared

Sorry no sound for the moment, I have to re-edit...

teasing-time in the afternoon II

well you know me, I couldn't resist in teasing it a bit...

Quito - Piñas

From Quito to the Buenaventura-reserve next to Piñas in 2 days - a motorcycledream on the Panamericana with a short detour through the Amazone forest.

Surfrack

How many people do you need in Ecuador to weld a surfrack?

Birds on sticks

We had the priviledge through our contact with Cesar Garzon to be able to have a look through the collection of the Museo Ecuadoriano de Ciencias Naturales (MECN).

Thats the way the drawers look over there: dissected and labeled birds on wooden sticks

the collection of endangered species

Three from the colección especial: on the left different species of Tapaculo, in the middle the Jocotoco, the heraldic animal of the der Fundación, who owns the Buenaventura-Reserve and on the right the Perico de Orcés, the parakeet of my thesis

Similar to this one, the Tapaculo is supposed to look like that I am searching with Claudia in Buenaventura until the end of january

The Lilacine Amazone (in the moment getting leveled up to species-status) that I'm going to be searching for three month in Manabi und Esmeraldas afterwards

Hannes (thesis with the Perico de Orcés), Claudia (my Tapaculo-boss), Cesar Garzon from the MECN and the other guy there from the Tapaculo-Project

Botanical Gardens Quito

Company car

My work car for the next 5 month and the 3 mecanics that are getting it up and running perfectly. The day after it's going to have racks for my surfboards and then I'm heading South.

Quito

Trapped in Quito: here in Ecuador you have to register your visa. At least it only takes 5 days. Well, if I have to be here anyway I had a look at the city.

On top of the tower of the munster in Freiburg the highest gothic granit concrete-church of Quito

100.000km

For the 3rd birthday of my wild 13, after more than 100.000km of travels on four continents, 15 flights, countless drives in busses, trains, cars, on trucks, motor- and pushbikes, skateboards, with ferrys, boats and canoes, after 5 snapped leashes and the board therefore into the rocks, after 4 people were sitting on the rails on a bumpy busride (Philippines), after it flew off the bemo with 60km/h (Philippines aswell), after the bike fell on it (damn, Philippines again), countless wipe-outs, over-the-falls, contacts ith the reef, river-, beach- and reefwaves, contests, shapecamps and most of all maaaany hours inthe surf in small, big, flat, hollow, relaxed and dangerous waves it was time for the 100.000km- check before going to Ecuador. Fixed the epoxy on the rails and polished it for the nice shine. Ready.

Auf geht's Wölfe Freiburg

I got invited to the VIP-stands of the EHC Freiburg against Deggendorf. A few Glühweins (hot & spiced wine) later the Wölfe (wolves) even won 2:1. Even with my bad-luck on visits to stadiums...

Climbing in the Vosges

Very-late-autumn in France from it's beautiful side

Indonesia XXIX

Travelling in Indonesia means you wait 3 hours to get out of one harbour, then you cross the channel on the ferry in 2 hours before waiting another 3 hours in the middle of the other harbour to finally get on land again

Waves again!

-> Surfing!! all pictures: Sara Girometti

Flat spell

-> Waterfall!!! 40m cool and wet (see human at the lower left corner of the waterfall). On the way there and back I only had to pick up around 30 leeches each way from my legs.

Indonesia XXVIII

alle Fotos: Sara Girometti

a little boat cruise

Went on a boat with a few other surfers for 5 days to get uncrowded surf that can't be reached by land. Here our boat (all pics: Aaron Jackson):

and that's what we came for...

early morning surf-preparation

dreamwaves in paradise

Indonesia XXVII

Stuck somewhere again waiting to leave with a fisherman in the morning

Mmmmh, tasty! Dried babyfish!

How to... fix a snapped leash

Somewhere in the backcountry and your last leash snapped? You can say what you want about the Indonesians, but they sure know how to fix things. Here the bulletproof fisherman-fix of my leash: