Well Rooted

A bird or lizard once sat on the lava once the rocks had cooled enough to not cook it, did a poo, spreading a seed and a tree grew...

Ternate Pt 2...things are getting rocky..why are there goats under the table?

October 17th 2014
Continuing our tour around Ternate, with Linda who had joined us after a late flight and a marathon trek from Kansas, we were leaving Fort Oranje when Sofie tripped over a metal stake sticking out of the fortress wall taking a horrible heavy fall. A fall that would have put most of us in hospital saw us make a quick stop for ice and bandaids at the Apoteki before Sofie insisted on continuing on. A ... 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

18th October 2014

taracloud
Tara Cloud

Evolution in the Spice Islands
What a heavenly holiday!--making a pilgrimage to your mentor's home (a true hero), sharing lunch space with goats, having a waterfall in your upscale dining room and then being danced to sleep by fireflies. Amazing that the area around the caldera lake was a part of continental Australia only 6,000 years ago, and how prescient of the young to be planting trees in the lava! The magic of biology everywhere.

littlewing
Cindy

The fireflies were magic
We dont get them here in Aus Tara so i have a special fondness for them - they make me feel all walt disney :D

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