Rainbow Warrior


Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior came to Papua! They weren't protesting, but promoting the beauty of Papua's vast wilderness and the importance of protecting it. Guin's sister Thom and Nic's friend Val, whom we had met in Sydney, was part of the crew and gave us a tour. Cool thing was, cousins Otto and Esther had just been on the very same ship in Sydney a few days before. A strange sensation, having this sudden connection with, but still being so very far from, our family.





Current forest (top) and proposed logging (bottom). Ouch!

Soren's Special Time

We've been working with Soren on expressing and thinking about frustration and anger in better ways. The reward he chose on completing his sticker chart was to go to the fancy new mall in Jayapura and have frozen yoghurt and special time with Daddy.

Hotel Fun in Jayapura

View of Jayapura Harbour from our hotel window. Jayapura is the capital city of Papua province, an hour or three's drive from Sentani depending on traffic.


We were bemused to see this sign on the way to the army base lookout: If in doubt, better turn back.
General MacArthur brought an end to Japanese occupation of Papua during WWII. This is one of the tanks he brought ashore in Jayapura Harbour.

Dinner at our favourite fish restaurant. You choose the fish; they scoop it out and grill it for you!

Yes, this is for real.

But this is the real Jayapura.

TeeeeeVeeeee!

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.