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many large crocodiles (nobody in the world knows their number) i.e. the PNG jungle
crocodiles or jungle-river alligators. Wow…………! (And we still had to pass their areas
again for going home). The situation we had faced was due to ‘incorrect timing’
because NJE team had entered this area at the end of the rainy season (April 2017).
If one entered the area in the hot season a completely different picture would
have been seen. The lake-and-weed area, and some swampy areas, passed at that
time, in the next hot season, would become a huge field of weeds with a non-paved
road across the field which could be passed by a 4-wheel driven jeep. In that case the
village of Wandouw which looked like a small island in the rainy seasons was actually
a large field area on the top of a hill with many rumah panggung encircled by a huge
area of empty land full of weeds in the hot seasons. This huge area was surrounded
again by the larger area of virgin jungles. All alligators and crocodiles would be gone,
moving from the lake-and-weed area to the big rivers but they would be replaced by
tigers, lions and snakes coming out from the jungles and entering, hiding and
wandering in the field of weeds to look for their preys. What a wonderful Wandouw!
The isolated village surrounded by the zoo-like environment with two totally different
sceneries in two different seasons i.e. an island in rainy seasons and a savanah
encircled by forest in hot seasons is very rare and really unique.

2017: At Wandouw – Testimony by Ev Benny Gozali with Ev TA Hartanto and Ps Morris W and the NJE
sleeping barrack.

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