So I finally gave in to this whole blog business. Just so everyone knows, I am basically a 70 year old stuck in the body of a 26 year old. Either that or a pre-Industrial 26 year old stuck in the 21st century. What I am trying to get at is the fact that I am less than tech-savvy and much prefer reading books than e-whatevers. Therefore, I will do my best at this and try to keep everyone who cares updated about how things are going in my life. In particular, I will make sure that I confirm my corporeal existence on a monthly basis while I am off in the jungle hiding from the world...I mean collecting data for my sure to be fascinating dissertation.
All the best,
Alice
Being initiated into the fold
No, not really; we (Luca, Jacky, and I) visited a huge masjid in Jakarta and had to wear the robes
Luca with his two wives
Possibly even creepier
Going to Krakatoa (with Luca's friend Yashar)
I did not intend to look quite so much like the prow of a ship
On the way back from Krakatoa
Walking Anak Krakatoa
With my friend Icha at a WCS wedding
Alice lounging in Kota Agung
Drinking milk
An adult male siamang imprisoned
A group of juveniles
Moving one of the siamangs to a bigger cage
Watching Alice
Porcupine - the best I could get
Termites swarming on my porch
It was like walking the gauntlet to get down the stairs
Sunset over Pulau Seribu
Where I spent New Years 2009
Mating moths - Pulau Seribu
A Kingfisher on Pulau Seribu (Thousand Islands)
Barge crossing on the way to the forest
After the old wood bridge collapsed into the river this new system was devised
Loading the barge
Steering our boat to Krakatoa by foot
Approaching Krakatoa
Is there anybody out there? (forced title by Luca)
Ascending Anak Krakatoa
The still active anak Krakatoa
Luca climbs the monster
I did not quite have the balls or skill to follow him, so I took lots of pictures of rocks instead
A swollen Canguk River
The rainy season begins
A view from the top
One of my fascinating rock pictures
The bridge that I use every day somewhat relocated by flood waters
Luca prepares to walk back in under a cool palm on the Canguk beach
The chaotic waves of the beach outside of the forest
Luca and I wlked out to the beach one day in early October
Our Ratufa when she was still strong
Still hard to look at the pictures
An intricate grasshopper
The ceiling of a Ficus cathedral I discovered
Another view of the Cathedral with me for scale
I apologize as this is a crappy photo (my eyes are closed and it is not in focus or straight) but I did take it of myself by sitting the camera on part of the vine
One of my experiments in texture and using my hand as a filter (it makes things red)
There are many more where this came from
My new gibbon group - Isabella and male who still needs a name - any ideas it has to start with "I"
Although not in great focus, I really like the body posture (I think I love this group)
The new gibbon group (see bottom left) again in a "Hata" tree
I like to give an idea of scale without the lens zoomed-in all the way, plus a cool tree
Lovely self portrait 1
The important thin to know is that after this I climbed on top of this huge tree fall and then could not find a way down the other side and had to go around it
A cecah eats very messy figs (I had to use gasoline to get the goo offf of my hands)
More cecah fig-eating
My assistant (Ferri) gazing at piles of tiny crabs
All that grey stuff on the shore and logs are actually mounds of crab hatchlings
A close up of the crazy crabs
A handful of the little guys for scale
No idea what the hell this is (but still cool)
An undersea forest-fern mermaid (or kick ass caterpillar you decide)
The most punk-rocking caterpillar yet
A Python under my house
The one night I decided not to take my head lamp to dinner
The view from the road on the way to the forest
Three of my assistants (Ferri, Miskun, and Panut) hard at work
The lovely little mini waterfall that I of course fell into (someone had to test the depth)
The aftermath when a tree limb tried to smash its way through my roof at 3 am
Cecah (leaf monkeys) chilling out
A view of the canopy
Smiley toad by my steps
A lovely damsel fly
A great leaf-mimicking praying mantis (also in my room)
Ular api (fire snake)
Cool insect sex
Charlie pauses to pose for me while eating Polyalthia sp fruit
Crazy bat that did not feel like leaving my room
A cool little lizard lays eggs (I watched the whole digging, laying, covering process from my porch)
Big ass millipede (see my big ass foot for scale)
Yes everything really is bigger in the forest
Clara grooms Charlie
Charlie grooms Clara
Cormorants and their pale friend
My niece Erin running in the water
Seagull flying
Murky reflection of a shore bird
Clear reflection of a shore bird
My dad and me in Rockport, TX
At Way Canguk in 2005
Luca faces a very large wave at Krui
Krui fishing boats
Krui view of beach
Krui coral exposed
Daisy and her infant
This is Daisy, the first gibbon to really let me follow her
My grey fluff kitty (Austin)
Austin being tall
Leaping agile gibbon (Daisy) with her infant
Adult male siamang with a fully inflated throat sac
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