Texas Forest Stewardship award

Texas Forest Stewardship award
In 2007 we received a Texas Forest Stewardship award. L-R; Susan Sander, Sherry Collins, Clay Bales, Tom Collins

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

PAPUA NEW GUINEA - NEW BRITAIN ISLAND

Too much to cover in this blog right now...I will fill in some more comments later...we got 258 lifers with my target set at 219...The tour list was 297 species on PNG and 84 on New Britain Island.

I can say this was our most difficult tour ever - the weather, terrain, perhaps our age and a leader that was our worst ever leader.  We were saved by the back-up leader.  I will write the management of the Rockjumper Company regarding both leaders one get an A the other a D-.

In addition, Sherry dropped her camera and it was unusable.  We got bit by body mites at our river camp site, we fell down too many times to count while trying to navigate the steep muddy, rutted and rooted trails.  On our way home Sherry's Surface was stolen in Brisbane.

I took about 1,600 pictures, although the weather made it difficult to get good lighted photo opportunities.  Plus I also had camera difficulties just before we left so I got a new one a couple of days before departing.  Even though it was a Canon similar to my broke one, it was different enough to cause me problems with the poor light and different button and shooting options.   I have consolidated some of the "better" shots into a Google Photo Album and included a link to it.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/8YamxPu4oSpwdSLn6

Enjoy

Need I say more

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