Birds of Paradise

We had to go to Waisai town to purchase our park permits.
Even though we have been in the park for 2 weeks.
Had a lot of kids waving at us going up the river in our dinghy 
looking for a place to land

After getting  our permits purchased we went to the produce market
Lucked out finding a lady selling fresh sliced bread outside the market


The next morning we were picked up at our boat at 0500 and
went up an inlet on the island of Gam for a hike in the dark


It was well worth it as we got to see several Red Birds of Paradise


as well as some awesome tail feather shaking
as in the following video
https://garysboat.blogspot.com/2019/11/birds-of-paradise.html


Then the long hike back down.  Much easier with the sun up however


Overlooking the inlet we came up in the dark






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