Mantas

We saw about 15 of these in an hour. Maybe the most graceful animal in the ocean. It´s so hard to show scale, this guy is about 10 feet wide, give or take, and some of them were bigger. When you seem me back in the states ask me and I can show you some videos.

Back to Jakarta

January 12th 2008
So, back from Indonesia. I had forgotten how slow the Internet was in Indo and decided to wait to post until returning to La Paz. The holidays were great with the family, and while it took a bit to adjust to that style of traveling it´s not a bad way to go... with necessary intermittent breaks. There is too much to write about last month so here´s the truncated version (for more pics and de ... 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

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