Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

Getting there - we took the Batam ferry from Harbor Front - and wound our ways around the cargo ships to Batam. Then by van to another island, then by boat to Lincoln's place. Here are our GPS tracks

Here is how we got there - click, drag and zoom this active Google map

To get there, we had to cross from Batam to another island over a cable stay bridge

A closer view

We took the ferry from Singapore to Batam - and then overland, to a small river where we loaded everything on a small sanpan for about a 45 min ride to the kelong. A kelong is a small wooden home on stilts built for fishing. Loading

Another view

The boat trip to Lincoln's Kelong

The Kelong where we stayed

A nearby home

Lunch - a seafood delight

Some fished

Then off I went in search of insects - more focus practice. First I found a small small grasshopper inside a flower

In the late afternoon, the tide goes out - Strange place, the equator - where there is only a single obvious low tide and single obvious high tide

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Low tide looking at our kelong

Evening of the first day

C. Frank Starmer

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