This is a bad pic of a nice little snake - a Papuan tree boa, Candoia carinata, which was sunning itself by a track at Balek village sanctuary, Madang. I should have taken one with at least its head visibile...bad kev...from a biogeographical perspective it's interesting that there should be a boa here in PNG...in Australia of course we only have pythons.
View over a table of fruits and peanuts, Madang markets
A fellow who runs a butterfly 'farm' in his village called Bilbil....he has planted it out with lots of trees, shrubs and vines that attract various butterflies which then lay their eggs and turn into big, fat, spiny caterpillars....in terms of product development, he still has a way to go, I think, but he has some very interesting plants and butterflies....just think that many tourists might be expecting more though
At Balek village, the villagers have created a small wildlife attraction including the viewing of eels in this creek..he managed to attract three big fellas to his splashings....a few hundred metres up this creek the creek is actually made up on 'normal' creek water on one side of the channel and sulphuric water with a very distinct icy blue colour on the other side of the channel..the two 'forms' of water remain separate and most of the fish only live in the normal side water...very unusual
My colleague, Michelle, who, as you might imagine, attracted quite a lot of attention being blonde and tall, buying some rambutan fruit at Madang markets
This is a bad pic of a nice little snake - a Papuan tree boa, Candoia carinata, which was sunning itself by a track at Balek village sanctuary, Madang. I should have taken one with at least its head visibile...bad kev...from a biogeographical perspective it's interesting that there should be a boa here in PNG...in Australia of course we only have pythons.
View over a table of fruits and peanuts, Madang markets
A fellow who runs a butterfly 'farm' in his village called Bilbil....he has planted it out with lots of trees, shrubs and vines that attract various butterflies which then lay their eggs and turn into big, fat, spiny caterpillars....in terms of product development, he still has a way to go, I think, but he has some very interesting plants and butterflies....just think that many tourists might be expecting more though
At Balek village, the villagers have created a small wildlife attraction including the viewing of eels in this creek..he managed to attract three big fellas to his splashings....a few hundred metres up this creek the creek is actually made up on 'normal' creek water on one side of the channel and sulphuric water with a very distinct icy blue colour on the other side of the channel..the two 'forms' of water remain separate and most of the fish only live in the normal side water...very unusual
My colleague, Michelle, who, as you might imagine, attracted quite a lot of attention being blonde and tall, buying some rambutan fruit at Madang markets
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