Tag: nature
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Birthday in Borneo
I had been looking forward to seeing the orangutans in Borneo since before coming to Indonesia. I bought the kids rain boots last year in Cairns, Australia to protect against fire ants and leeches in the rainforest. By the time we got to Borneo, I had to buy them new boots as they had outgrown…
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For Harris with love
oh harris you were on your way solo hiking the JMT you were bummed to only get a nobo, or northbound, permit and then i saw online that you hadn’t picked up your food caches and you hadn’t pressed the SOS button on your In Reach device where were you? what happened? and the next…
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Waterfalls and Orang-utans
Our visa extensions got approved! Whew! We had to give them some additional documents, but it worked out. We had a lovely time on Moyo Island, where we visited two amazing waterfalls and met a nice family who has recently moved from St. Croix to Bali. We hired 3 guys to take us 6 km…
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More visitors!
We made a quick trip to Sorong to pick up our friends Steph and Nic. We stocked up on butter, cheese, and chicken breast. The kids spent an afternoon playing on SV Tayrona while we ran errands and cleaned the boat. Sorong is notorious for theft, so we were happy to just stay there two…
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Triton Bay – Turtle Cove
We spent about 10 days exploring different places in Triton Bay. We anchored just north of Triton Bay Divers, and I did a refresher dive course there. I did my PADI course in Savusavu, Fiji in 2012, the summer that Riki and I met, and I hadn’t dove since then. (Oh, and I got Bells…
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Brown kiwi (and other wildlife)
The New Zealand national bird is a kiwi, and New Zealanders themselves are also called kiwis. You see road signs here that say “Be a tidy kiwi, keep it in the car”. Our kids learnt about native birds in school, and started drawing kiwis within our first month in NZ. I never thought we would…
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