Hunting & Gathering

We stayed in a lovely little guesthouse in Malang while we looked for a house to rent. I loved the Javanese furniture!





Breakfast.

For lunch and dinner, we discovered lots of warungs around town.



Bercakap-cakap (chatting).

Here you can order a fresh juice: any combination of orange, watermelon, apple, papaya, rockmelon, pineapple.. Two guys, two blenders and a generator worked flat out all day.

Eat-in or take-away.

Off we go again

Sentani Airport.

Tired boy.



Transit at Makassar, South Sulawesi. Our turn to have a laugh at language mistakes.

Reuben making a run for it.

Trying to escape reality at Makassar airport. It worked; thanks for the books Mum!

Packing (again)

We stored most of the stuff from our Sentani house in the roof, to allow another family to make it their home while we're away. It was painful to pack up and move again, having just made the massive transtion from Australia.

Weevils

Everything is bursting with life in tropical Papua, even the rice.

Meet our 'Cluster Team'

This wonderful couple lead our 'cluster team', which is four families, all in different stages of our projects in Papua. We share information, experience, skills and resources and encourage and support one another. The weekend before we left for Malang we spent a weekend together at the nicest hotel we could find. Their two fantastic children looked after the little kids while we met together.

These are some special friends, the Reynolds, who are working in a remote part of Papua. Lucky for us they spend time in Sentani too.

Soren and Uriah: thick as thieves, wild at heart.

Over the weekend we celebrated Nathan's first birthday!

The lovely Chois, also working with a remote people group.

Their two very cool boys.

Not happy Jan!

We had some time to chill.

The hotel had western-style toilets, and were kind enough to remind us to sit not squat. Oh, and there was hot water! I took looooong showers, with no guilt.

Golden beauty

A day at the beach

We drive about an hour from Sentani in convoy with a few other families to where a boat picks us up and takes us the 20 minutes to this beautiful beach. On a clear day the water is a pristine blue and the view of the mountains surrounding the bay is stunning.

The boys head straight for the water.

There is plenty of opportunity for snorkeling, exploring and collecting sea creatures.