ORANG GILA (Crazy man)!

July 25th 2006
The Amazing Samson (sam SONE) in a live acrobatic performance off Komodo Island last July (2005). Despite the language barrier (our first successful attempt at communicating in Indonesian was "The fish eats the squid" in reference to their hand-line fishing and bait) Becky and I spent the afternoon being silly with Samson and Unen, our deckhands, leaping off various levels of this rickety old boa ... read more

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The Dutch began to colonize Indonesia in the early 17th century; the islands were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. Indonesia declared its independence after Japan's surrender, but it required four years of intermittent negotiations, recurring hos... ... read more