Well done Ian.
Great day’s ride to complete the epic Indonesian sector of the journey.

Spent way too long looking at snakes of Indonesia photos looking for a matching pattern... without any luck.

Maybe parrot's beak?

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/260753-Heliconia-psittacorum

Losing the highway driving through towns was an infuriating thing a few decades back, mostly bypassed now. It led me to invest in the UBD country towns street directories. On a bicycle it must be so deflating.

This last one would win a Stalinist propaganda prize!

Do they sing while they work?

Take care to turn left.

You probably missed the big news story last week about the south coast lady who had a 5 inch worm extracted from her brain attributed to a python poo parasite egg picked up foraging salad greens.

Too much Nazi Goering.

Just a question of getting a good run up down the hati-hati bumps…

What would Bart Simpson say?

Ian, how accurate did your 70 miles per degree rule prove? Tis average should have slightly overstated because of Newton’s equatorial bulge. “Measure the Earth” by Laurie Ferreiro (my holiday reading on a Vietnam trip) relates the early 18th century French expedition to Peru to resolve the cross channel debate between Newton’s theory of gravity and Pascalian followers who postulated an elongated earth and vortex-driven gravity. Newton won, until Einstein kicked on from E=mcsquared to his General Theory.

I was much grieved when my 2010 Canon G10 died; it had a 70% optical viewfinder which you learned to estimate the frame for. The replacement is slimmer but problematic in tropical sun.

Where’s Neptune?

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