Our Indo Adventure
An Aussie family in the jungle of West Papua
When you live remotely in a country where twelve percent of people live on less than $2 a day, your perspective is bound to change somewhat. Fairly quickly, first world worries become...
It’s an interesting little place, this jungle home of ours. Our town of Tembagapura has a population of around 10,000, all of which are employed either directly or indirectly by Freeport...
We recently spent our ‘summer’ school break in the glorious Australian winter, savouring the abundant lifestyle on offer in our home country. The little things we completely took for granted when...
The last term of the school year up here on the mountain has been incredibly busy. So…where to start? One constant is the joy offered by the monkey bars in the...
Ok, so there was no surfing to be had, but a recent girls’ weekend in Bali turned out to be an unexpected highlight of my first two months on the mountain. It’s funny how...
Freeport Indonesia’s Grasberg Mine is the world’s largest gold mine and third largest copper mine, the scale of which is so big that the mile-wide open pit is clearly visible from space....
Last week we journeyed to the delightful Singapore on what’s known on the mountain as a ‘Visa Run’. When John initially started work here, he was granted a four-month visa which...
It’s just on three weeks since we arrived in our little mountain-top community and to-date it’s been a case of so far, so good. Following our arrival in our home, which...
Sorry all, I have a few posts to catch up on! I have figured out fairly quickly that my standard practice of working at night has been sabotaged by a fairly...
Our Indo Adventure 