Sumatra Geography

Pretty rocks adorn the beaches	A school in tradition buffalo horn style
An upmarket house on the edge of town	Seeds and nuts are often dried on the roadside
New houses in cleared land within the ever expanding villages	A fine bridge over one of the larger rivers
Traditional dancers with hobby horses at a young man's circumcision ceromony	All the trees should have been as tall as this one. More and more jungle is cleared for farming
Chris loitering ouside the shelter	Our first shelter before it got swept away
I decided to make my camp seperate, until I got rained out!	This was our loo
Tim and Mike in the bathroom	One of our cooks and guides rebuilds the shelter after the storms with banana leaves
The first kitchen at camp one	We decided to rebuilt on level ground
The crew rebuilt from the contents of the jungle	Camp two still under construction
The finishing touches are done to camp two	This was our kitchen and the fire needed for cooking
Our camp, my clothes did not dry for two weeks, the humididy was so great	Shattered after a hard treck and waiting for the rain to come at 4pm
We split up into two small groups and searched the jungle. One place a primate made off in the canopy. It was alone, hid and obviously it had been eating these figs	Cinnamon leaves
Chris is at a place where we found lean too like structures made from ratan	Chris puts a sample in a bag
I found some scat on a leaf , possibly primate in origin.it was taken in a file to be anylized later	The cleared areas of jungle have bridges across the many water ways. some of them have fungi on the dead wood
Typical farming in the cleared land	Chillies were common crop grown
Dally shows mike how to strip a cinnamon trunk	The team interview an Orang Pendek witness
I sketched ape feet for the witness to remember	Making way through the vegetation looking for signs of Orang Pendek
Tim and Dali falling down a ravine	Mike checks out a possible camera site
Ruby and Lisa	Rebecca and Lisa
One of the many strange footprints that we found	Dally and Mike at the footprint site amongst the tobacco plantation
Mike has administered plaster to a Orang Pendek print	A few of the Orang Pendek footprint casts
Cast 1	Cast 2
One of the many larger rivers	Tea plantations run as far as the eye can see in some places
The typical jungle at ground level	The whole of the western side of Sumatra has a long ridge of mountains, and they can be seen throughout
Tree ferns adorn the cinnamon trees	Typical jungle at canopy level
This is the lean to we found, an animal ran from nearby but we could nor see what it was	A motorbike man with durian fruit sells a few to us
Opening up the durian it looks nice but smells like urine and tastes even worse	Typical vehicles and yards
Produce is put out to dry in the sun. These sights are everywhere	A wild caught bird was imprisoned. A common occupation to bring in money
On the road	Padang centre