Next trip to Peru August 2024

 

 

Ecuador

I scream for help from my mule driver as I sink calf...knee...hip deep into the mud. He continues walking ignoring my frantic pleas. And then I realize...he's robbing me! Thousands of dollars of camera gear strapped to his mule and he is making the slowest getaway ever! The adventure starts here- www.pbertner.wordpress.com

 

Guyana

Yesterday the tire flew off my minibus, I cut the head off a pit

viper and I was banned from a commercial flight by associating with a narco-trafficker. Today I am bushwhacking through the jungle in the remote trail-less backwaters of Guyana, waist deep in water and praying to make it through the rest of the day alive. What will tomorrow bring? God only knows. The adventure starts here- pbertner.wordpress.com/.

 

Madagascar

 

I throw myself off the steep embankment and clutch at the crumbling roots and plants. I turn off my flashlight. Pitch dark. My breathing comes in ragged gasps. And then voices. I cover my mouth to kill all sound. Flashlight beams scan the trail. “They’re walking slowly…too slowly!” cries the voice at the back of my head. I clench my teeth and brace my body but I feel my feet slipping on the wet clay. And then they stop, not 5 metres away. My eyes flicker upwards and I feel the searchlight slowly skinning the hide from my back. “It’s over…it’s all over”. The adventure starts HERE. pbertner.wordpress.com/madagascar/

 

Indonesia

As we drove up the steep gravelly road, I could feel us losing momentum but the ojek driver urged his bike on until finally it stalled at the road’s steepest point. For a brief moment time stalled as well, and then the bike slid backwards and I could feel myself falling. The camera hit the pavement first, and I wasn’t sure if the harsh crack was the sound of the camera or of my head which followed swiftly after. The adventure starts HERE pbertner.wordpress.com/some-sort-of-beginning/

 

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I found a word in Malay which seems to describe my 'occupation'- Pengembara. A kind of traveler, adventurer, backpacker, vagabond- all the above.

 

All my pictures are taken in the wild, no zoo shots here. I take pictures of whatever I can and post them for interest's sake, but my best quality photos can be found in my favourites set.

 

Traveling to rainforests all over the world is my goal and passion. I find rainforest ecology, systematics and taxonomy a very interesting challenge. However, only recently have I gotten into macrophotography, but I find it immensely satisfying.

 

Future trips will no doubt include:

Africa

Colombia

French Guiana

Papua new guinea

 

If you plan on visiting any of these places or on traveling to some of the places I've already been to, I would be happy to share my experiences.

 

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