Papuan Canoe

Early morning in the Kikori River Delta of Papua New Guinea, and a man paddles to work in his canoe. I was heading out in a speedboat (we slowed down to not swamp the man in the canoe), to run palm transects in a tract of flooded forest (see Ten Years Ago in Papua New Guinea).  [NOTE: Image was scanned from a slide and the quality is not as good as I would have liked. Sorry].

Lunch Choices

So we had just stopped for lunch after running inventory transects in the Tapajós-Arapiuns Extractive Reserve (see Tapajós-Arapiuns). And it had been raining all morning. And it looked like we were going to eat in an agricultural field that had just been burned and everything you touched was black and ashy. And then somebody (don't really remember who) took a picture, and it seems clear that I was not too happy about the lunch choices. [NOTE: I do, however, remember this field crew. What a fantastic group of guys].

Planting Stick

Pak Sukri (see Peat Farmer) shows the huge planting stick used in the peat swamp-based rice fields in Punggur, West Kalimantan. Granddaughter in the background looks on with interest.