We've hereseen Clicks good bit of life here in Indonesia over the past week, we had mochtails with a naval commodore and cruise ship captain, the governor's gove and tonight a regimental reunion which really kept the staff on their toes but it all happened so quickly, lots of salutes and hand shaking and hugs , lots of food and water, a but of karioki and then they were all gone again. Weddings galore but I think the weekend is over and normal service tomorrow. We had our first tropical thunderstorm of the trip this morning, tried sitting it out but it was persisting until lunch time so we got a taxi to take us to the sun bear reservation about 50mins on the main road out which took us past long lines of wagons fuelling up ready for the new week, they only seemed to have two places for the lorries. The sun bear enclosure has the resident population of about seven years mostly male and unsuitable for release back into the wild. Everything we had read seemed to be wrong and it was more zoo than any type of reserve and no breeding stock etc. It was clean and tidy and at feeding time they just fed thema la zoo but the local monkeys and squirrels also have a good feast. There is so little rain forest left that I guess the orangutans and sun bears will be extinct in a generation. On the skyline here the night is illuminated by the oil refinery burn off, just like stanlow they let go of most of the crap at night. The last days aren't promising for weather but we've done well until today. Hoping to get some more trucks and buses if it isn't raining in the morning, no chance of the orangutan lodge tomorrow, outside chance Tuesday then it will be too late as weflyback to Jakarta on Wednesday. The local buses here are colour coded by route and seem to go along way out, we saw them all the way out today visiting the bear place. Well We home Thursday evening and hopefully clear the dvd orders on Friday so feel free to use the shopthis week any delay should be minimal, I'll switch Amazon back on and get eBay off holiday settings. We shall also of course bring you pictures from the trip. to edit.
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