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

Indonesia XXII

the swimming bridge across the wasteriver in Bogor, crossing over to the other side costs 8 cent

Cikananga V

I'd say I've seen the area. Red circles: 2 and 4km radius; grey spots were excluded from the search (mainly monocultures and urban areas). Altogether I walked more than 100km.

Cikananga IV

I know, selfies are stupid. But I got bored making pictures of ricefields. Therefore my search for the bird from an different angle.

Birdsearcher Level -3: the Distracted
characteristics: should be looking for a bird but looks at spiders, snakes and butterflies

Birdsearcher Level 2: happy-go-lucky
favored mode of locomotion: farm tracks
characteristics: gets burned because of short sleeves

Birdsearcher Level 5: the Established
favored mode of locomotion: balancing on the 10cm broad walls of the ricefields
characteristics: long sleeves; stick against spidernets, snakes and annoying dogs

Birdsearcher Level 10: the Straightforward
favored mode of locomotion: straight, even if this involves going through the hedge
characteristics: scratches on arms and legs

Birdsearcher Level 20: the Lunatic
favored mode of locomotion: further
characteristics: slides down overgrown slopes with 40° inclination because the before hardly existent path
                             vanished into the Nothing

 

Cikananga III

teasing-time in the afternoon

I couldn't resist and had to annoy the scorpion for a while, hehe

How to... keep your kids busy

Child-care indonesian style:

Cikananga II

I started to walk around  and look for the Black-Winged starling here in the area. Means, I hike in between the rice paddies all day long.

a little sunshelter for the workers on the fields

Well, those guys are out there aswell. Birdcatcher in action. With a marketprice of more than a month pay for the Black-Winged starling there's little to wonder why I can't find him (yet).

Here something for the spider-lovers in between you

Ricefields and improvised bridges as far as you can see.

I just had to make a shot of this old lady, hehe

Cikananga I

The next two month i'm going to be working with the Cikananga Conservation Breeding Center. More information about this organisation you can find at www.cikanangawildlifecenter.com. I'm going to part of the project to reintroduce the critically endangered Black-Winged Starling (Sturnus melanopterus) into the wild. The first goal for me is going to be to find the released birds from last year in the area. If they haven't died or been caught to sell them we will start a new release. Then I'm going to collect data for a while after the release to monitor the success of the release.

Because I'm supposed to find the birds in the nature, I need to get to know them first. Learn their singing and what they are up to. And how could you do this better than cleaning their cages, hehe? I don't want to just sit around and listen to the birds so I helped the keepers to clean the cages of the breeding program.

Indonesia XXI

Back in Indonesia. No perfect waves, but nobody there

Well, almost nobody...

The indonesian language can be a funny one. Directly translated: throw away big water 5.000 Rp, throw away small water 2.000Rp.

Singapore III

Finally got a new camera, therefore from now on the quality of the pictures is going to be a bit better.
A new Visa was included with the short trip to Singapore.

Indonesia XX

The family that accomodated me in ''somewhere in deepest Indonesia''

Well, the picture didn't really work out when I'm in it, next time better

More deserted Right- and Lefthanders

Here again (not again, booring!) a few pics from way out there and far away from all tourists. Stayed with a family in the area because the next hotel was a one hour drive away. Well, and this happens aswell, beautiful beach and the waves are to small:

And this, after i drove in the truest sense of the word cross-country. Tried for 2 hours to get to the beach. On the next picture you can see what I had to drive through (foto: Google). Cornfields as far as you can see and no streets. Just little tracks. And most of them were dead-ends. Then at one point I got sick of it and drove across the field. The way back was easier, hehe.

So close but so far. Top waves but where is the way?

To reach this spot I had to climb down the cliffs. One hand on the rock, one carries the surfboard. 

Alternative activity possibilities in the bouldercave

Well and as an old Dreisamsurfer (river through Freiburg) one notices the Waimeaesque outflow of the lagoon. Naturally I had to try it. To the exitement amusement of the fishers on the beach. Greetings to Krabbelgruppe Abteilung München. You would have been able to rip more than me.

Indonesia XIX

On the ferry: 10 motorbikes, 2 cars and about 100 million bananas...

...and 20 horses. It took about 8 hours to load all the bananas while I was waaaaaaaaiting, because they all entered one by one. At least in the end they drove in the rest on top of the trucks