Sulawesi: 20 June through 2 July 2012
I recently completed a 13 day trip to Sulawesi, visiting two parks, Tangkoko Batuangus Nature Reserve (8,718 hectares) and Lore Lindu National Park (218,000 hectares). Tangkoko is one of the most accessible spots for a good introduction to lowland Sulawesi fauna and photography; and Lore Lindu is one of the best for highland fauna.
Meeting at 6:00 am at One Degree North yacht club on Sentosa, we began a self funded outing to check out the spring migration.
On Saturday Feb 19, 2012, Danny Lau, his son Jia Sheng and myself were bird watching in Panti Forest. We had spent the early hours near the second stream and sometime after 9 am we decided to backtrack towards the entrance of Bunker Trail. Continue Reading →
At 5 am on Friday, Nov 25, 2011, Danny, Jia Sheng and I set off for a three day, two night trip to Parit Jawa and the surrounding rice paddies.
Meeting at 6:00 am at the One Degree North marina, we began the last of the NParks sponsored surveys of the Singapore Straits.
Change of climate, anyone? Think of winter clothes, hats, gloves, boots, minus 10 degrees. Several of us went for a winter self-drive bird photography trip to Hokkaido in February 2011.
On October 15 we met again at One Degree North for our monthly pelagic survey. These trips have really been like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get.
Nature’s Best Photography selected this image from more than 21,000 images as Highly Honored in the Birds Category of the Windland Smith Rice International Awards 2011.
On September 17, 2011, thanks to the efforts of Colin Poole and Geoff Davison we convened again at ONE°15 Marina Club and boarded our boat shortly after 6am. The dawn light promised a good start to the day with partly cloudy skies. Some time passed while waiting to clear immigration formalities, finally getting underway past 7am. The plan was to proceed along our usual track but go a bit further East towards Horsburg hoping to see another frigatebird. It wasn’t long before we rounded St. John’s island and started picking up Swinhoe’s Storm Petrels, not knowing that it would be a bumper crop!
Nine seafaring individuals gathered as usual at 6:00am at One Degree Fifteen Marina and were off for our monthly outing. It is amazing the difference a month can make. Our July outing was a low point in numbers and diversity, we were not sure what to expect for this trip, but felt it also might be low in count, and hence a not very important month. Perhaps for that reason, this trip was selected to be the long trip out to Horsburgh Lighthouse, and Geoff Davison put in yeoman’s effort gaining approval from all the relevant authorities.