by Lynn Lawrance | Jul 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
Exploring Yaf Keru – ‘Travelling with The SEA People in West Papua teaches many things, including that coral restoration is hard work.’ Travelling with The SEA People in West Papua teaches many things, including that coral restoration is hard work....
by Lynn Lawrance | Jul 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Papuan echidnas and black tree kangaroos, a beautiful village and very strong currents, and the most developed part of Raja Ampat. We’re moving on today. Obaja is dancing around the back of the boat to the local music he plays and the atmosphere is pretty chilled. I...
by Lynn Lawrance | Jul 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
The tourism privilege (and paradox), birds of paradise, sailfin iguana… and a sea snake in the engine. The ‘blue river’ draws its source from the rains that run through the limestone cliffs in the jungle. The water is so cool and clear and blue that it looks...
by Lynn Lawrance | Jul 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
Caves, spots that crocs like, and crowds of clownfish. This is about the half way mark of my trip. It’s about now the environment starts taking a toll on me. The antimalarials get to my stomach. The sandfly bites accumulate and flare. Cuts won’t heal. I know from...
by Lynn Lawrance | Jul 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
A giant mangrove forest, a freshwater upwelling in the middle of a saltwater bay, sponges and corals we’ve never seen. And white dolphins. I wake up and write my last day’s diary while parrots and animals whose names I don’t know turn on the soundtrack to an...
by Lynn Lawrance | Jul 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
“…globally we’re happy to spend a fortune sending hundreds of people to exotic locations to ‘talk’, but we can’t scratch together a few hundred bucks to help people on the ground to ‘do’ “. Ranger Patrol, marlin and how not to get killed by a...
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