Friday, July 13, 2007

PNG photos

Port Moresby - Ella Beach


Church in Port Moresby


Sign in Port Moresby airport



Toby's apartment in Lae



View from apartment in Lae


View of airstrip in Yawan village


Arriving in Yawan village on 6 seater plane - 5500 ft


Baby tree kangaroo


Kids in Yawan


Primary school in Yawan - each building is a different grade


The students maintain the garden and cut the grass before class



Blackboard in school - learning about logging


Classroom


Research house


Our bathroom


Dono and Annie's house


View of Yawan


Seroen and Stacie on our tour of Yawan



Woman carrying firewood and garden food


Man separating coffee beans by hand



Bamboo is planted everywhere for use as a building material



Flowers in the village




Carriers getting ready to take our stuff up the mountain


Our stuff (wow! too much - and half of it didn't show up. I ate ferns and rice for dinner for a few nights)



Bridge of Uruwa River - between Yawan and Towet. Kids cross it everyday to get to school




Me and the gang in Towet


Spider in my sleeping quarters in Towet


The slots in the houses make a convenient place to keep your knife


Flower lined path in Towet


Cloud forest during hike up


View of Yawan on hike up cliff - you can see the landing strip


View of Towet and Uruwa river on hike up


Camping on the way to field site


Tree fern fiddlehead


Trail to field site(flat part)


Kotem River


Building structures for tents to go under


Ropes made of vines




Stanley and Victor


Kunai - open area with bunchgrasses and fern


Victor, Gabriel, Andrew and Carol look up what animal they spotted


My friends Emily (16) and Helen (15)



One of the hundreds of species of bryophytes



View of fern hut


Me and Kuna


Kuna and Mellie tracking a tree kangaroo


All of the hunters


Me and Toby


Collaring a tree roo


Cute face!!


Releasing a collared tree kangaroo




Yangu


Sunset


Epiphytes in tall trees look like tree kangaroos in the sun


Sunny cloud forest



Birdwing butterfly at Rainforest Habitat (zoo in Lae)


Bananas


Orchids at Rainforest Habitat



Boelen's python at RFH


Cassowary


Tree roo