Water, water everywhere...

September 04, 2012  •  3 Comments
Today I thought I'd share something a bit different from my travels, in particular a few abstract images that I took a couple of weeks ago whilst sailing on the overnight ferry to Baubau in South Sulawesi, affectionately known as the 'slave ship' because of its economy on personal space and the occasional clouds of diesel fumes that can give it an...
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Finally! A follow up on the swamps...

August 25, 2012  •  2 Comments
Time is a strange beast. Recently, what has felt like merely a few days, appears in reality to have been several weeks. I guess that being in Indonesia doesn't help with this warped perception, as the strict timeframes we are used to living by in the West slowly dissolve, and the phenomenon known here as 'rubber time' takes hold. Anyway, this pream...
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Beautiful Borneo! Well, one wee bit of it...

July 03, 2012  •  2 Comments
A couple of weeks ago I had the enormous privilege to visit the Sabangau tropical peat swamp forest near Palangka Raya, Kalimantan. Located in central southern Borneo, this area of forest is positively teeming with wildlife, and is home to an incredible array of endemic primate species, namely the Bornean orangutan, the red langur and the Bornean a...
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If you want to be a species saver... education's what you need

June 05, 2012  •  2 Comments
For several weeks now I have been based in the impressively hot and vibrant city of Manado in North Sulawesi, working with Selamatkan Yaki. Regular followers of my scribbles will be very familiar with the yaki, or Sulawesi crested black macaque... if you're not, check them out here... or here, come to think of it. These Critically Endangered monkey...
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Dance, monkey, dance!

May 18, 2012  •  8 Comments
Welcome once again, wildlife lovers! Over the last few weeks I have brought you a selection of some of Indonesia's incredible primates in all their glory, running free and wild, living out their brilliantly complicated lives in some of the world's greenest parts. I'm really starting to love Indonesia's animals! The positive news is that so do many...
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