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Posted 06 February 2010 - 01:17 AM

Hello travellers, some of you may remember a year ago I posted a topic about the exploration of this mountain range. A few pics of palms were on the site. This time, only one, that I have not been abble to,identify.
Here it is, maybe some of you have good magnifying lenses
And here is the link to the expedition. It is in french, sorry about that but there are a few beautiful pictures of the place. Two persons from the expedition are still on site exploring and sending news to this blog every other day. Hope you will go to it and enjoy the exotic heat... It is very hot down there they say and lots of rain.
I will keep posting if I have news from them. I sent an email today. bruno

http://www.makaynature.org/wp/?cat=1


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Posted 06 February 2010 - 01:52 AM

Very interesting
thanks bruno

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Posted 06 February 2010 - 07:31 AM

Thanks for the link Bruno. Those Ravenea rivularis look amazing.

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Posted 06 February 2010 - 09:41 PM

I have just noticed there is a british flag on the upper right of the screen for english speaking palm fanatics. So, go visit.
This morning there is a new post saying they have discovered paradise on earth.
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Posted 07 February 2010 - 06:05 AM

Bruno I'm going in for a closer look. :D
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Posted 07 February 2010 - 06:07 AM

It didn't translate for me. :(
Perth West Oz 32S Dry subtropics. Record temps: -0.7C to 46C. Winter 8C to 18C min/max, Summer 18C to 32C min/max. 869mm rainfall winter to mid spring. Dry summers and autumns. Garden record temps 1.5C to 42C, frost free. Ocean temps 18C to 23C. 18km (11 miles) from Indian Ocean. 25m above sea level. Swan coastal plain. Sandy "Bassendean Grey" growing medium.
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Posted 07 February 2010 - 06:31 AM

Sorry, the day to day adventure is not translated in english but the site is! And the pics don't rally need comments.
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Posted 07 February 2010 - 07:04 AM

Dear Bruno :)

Very nice link and the stills seen there are like reading a national geography magazine.
Very beautiful and some kind of out of the world experience...:greenthumb:

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Posted 27 February 2010 - 12:09 AM

I met the young chief of the expedition yesterday in Tana, Evrard.
He showed me lots of beautiful pics, We will have them soon. Quite a few of palms but, as he is not interested in palms like we are, he did not especially look at them. But the ones he took are superb, of superb palms.
The one I posted up top: he told me the place had been burned a few months before, that's why the palms looks so sad. I think it maybe a bismarckia.
Keep this thread under close watch!
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Posted 27 February 2010 - 02:26 AM

Merci,merci, merci! :drool:
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Posted 27 February 2010 - 07:36 AM

Thank you very much, Bruno!
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Posted 27 February 2010 - 09:52 AM

Can hardly wait to see the photos. Thanks Bruno! :)
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Posted 27 February 2010 - 10:19 AM

Madagascar is still the most beautiful, exotic place I have ever been. Thanks for posting the pics Bruno, could not get the english version but the photos alone were worth it.

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Posted 27 February 2010 - 01:47 PM

Thanks Bruno, and please feel free to post non-palm photos as well.
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Posted 27 February 2010 - 02:58 PM

Bruno,

Thanks for the story and link. I think I can speak for others as well as myself in saying, we really do appreciate you taking your time and showing us this. And more pictures would be great.


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Posted 30 May 2010 - 02:27 AM

Back on the screen! I finally received some magnificent pics of that expedition which sounded very hard physically. Because of the extreme difficulty to enter the area. You will see that from the first pic: up and down.[IMG]http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g146/tanety/EW_MakayNature2010_1282.jpg[/img]
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Posted 30 May 2010 - 02:29 AM

Every time I come back on the forum to post pics, it seems that the way to do it is different! Now, let me try again. Sorry friends.
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Posted 30 May 2010 - 02:39 AM

I hope I have it this time.
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Posted 30 May 2010 - 02:48 AM

again really bad hein!

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Posted 30 May 2010 - 03:17 AM

Once you're up there with all your gear and food and tents, you have to go down again, and up again...

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Posted 30 May 2010 - 03:21 AM

Closer and closer

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Posted 30 May 2010 - 03:25 AM

Lots of pandanus and ravenea rivularis. Very tall ones, up to 25 meters!

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Posted 30 May 2010 - 03:31 AM

How to cross instead of going up and down... But one has to do the job of attaching the equipment

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Posted 30 May 2010 - 03:37 AM

A new kind of spider discovered in Makay, very big, eats a lot, funny web!

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Posted 30 May 2010 - 03:42 AM

Absolutely spectacular images, Bruno!!! Thank you so much for sharing!!! :drool:
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Posted 30 May 2010 - 06:28 AM

This is the way to do it. Up and down. And once down, plenty of crocodiles. But no one has been eaten or attacked.

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Posted 30 May 2010 - 07:10 AM

Spectacular Bruno!!

Thanks very much!!

Please continue.
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Posted 30 May 2010 - 07:30 AM

That's what it looks like down within the trunks. It is a swamp, but the team never talked about mosquitoes.

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Posted 30 May 2010 - 09:43 AM

awe-inspiring! thanks so much for posting these photos!
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Posted 30 May 2010 - 02:00 PM

Awesome Bruno, that first pic is the best habitat photo I think I have ever seen. :)

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Posted 31 May 2010 - 12:13 PM

Quite amazing.
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Posted 01 June 2010 - 09:57 AM

Jaw-dropping photos!! Thanks Bruno!
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Posted 02 June 2010 - 10:02 PM

Here is one of the inhabitants of the Makay. There are two varieties of lemurs.

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Posted 03 June 2010 - 12:04 AM

The brothers...It seems again ipossible to attach two îcs at once.

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Posted 03 June 2010 - 12:37 AM

It seems that oil palm are very present also in the makay! Very surprising for me.

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Posted 03 June 2010 - 12:50 AM

Beautiful pics, thank you so much for this thread!
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Posted 03 June 2010 - 01:04 AM

another eleais guineinsis (spelling?)

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Posted 03 June 2010 - 01:48 AM

In the depths of the canyons.

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Posted 03 June 2010 - 03:40 AM

Here is an isolated and beautiful ravenea rivularis by a wide river that flows only in the summer.

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Posted 03 June 2010 - 05:14 AM

All the pictures have been taken by Evrard Wendenbaum who is a journalist photographer, a really good one! He is at the origin of this expedition and looks like he is in his late thirties. A young explorer. If you have visited his site, the goal of these expeditions is to create a national park reserve there before everything is gone up in smoke...

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