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