Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction 9
Swampy has a problem 12
Out the Biak of Beyond 19
Up the Creek Without a Map 24
Kampung Koweda 29
A Needle in a Haystack 36
Flying by the Seat of Our Pants 43
Beatrix 63
An Incredible Feat of Courage 72
A River Runs Through It 77
Things Hot Up in Jakarta 81
On a Wing and a Prayer 86
Meanwhile, Back in the Jungle... ............................... 90
Meeting the Locals 94
Come Fly with Me 97
Adders and Omelettes 104
Fine Dining on Biak Island 111
Out for the Count in Jakarta 129
Hunting Mother-in-Law 132
The Warmest of Welcomes 138
The Gold Standard in Navigation 145
Indorayon: A New Pulpmill 154
Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright.....................................158
Building My Team 165
Where Did All the Trees Go? 170
South America or Bust...............177
The Border Crossing Record 181
The Aracruz Eucalyptus Phenomenon 188
"Good Cop-Bad Cop" in Porsea 207
Rod and the Chinese Squeeze 214
Wedding Bells in Batak Country 218
The Bupati Meets His Match 224
Golf and Gibbons 232
"Load Her Up, Pak!" 237
Pastor Ross 243
A Major Slip-Up 250
Chainsaw Diplomacy 269
A Wild Woman 273
The Pulpmill Chain 277
Glossary......... 282

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Meanwhile, Back in the Jungle...
Living and working in New Zealand in the 1980s isn't much fun when there are leech-infested jungles somewhere out there to be explored and isolated tribespeople to befriend. So when Ross Lockyer's mate, Swampy, telephones him with a job offer that seems like simple madness, Ross jumps at the chance to escape civilization yet again.
In his latest book, Ross heads into the remote, unmapped jungles of Indonesian West Papua (Irian Jaya) to set up a base camp from which to survey and establish a new forestry concession. He's spotted the perfect camp site from the air, but there's nowhere to land an aircraft, so first he must find his way to it by water, riding a drum of avgas in an overloaded dug-out canoe into the unknown, across the open sea and up a tangle of crocodile-infested, mangrove-clogged creeks. And that's just the start of it!
The new concession is located in an area where there are no roads, no communications, few villages, and no airstrips-only dense jungle inhabited by a few small, primitive, nomadic tribes, some of whom still practice cannibalism and head hunting. There are no maps, no doctors, and no trappings of civilization. It's just the way Ross likes it! And with the only decent bathing spot around infested with crocodiles, thousands of miles of jungle to lose his survey crews in, and a mysterious Papuan with blood on his hands for a body-guard, what could possibly go wrong?
Ross is in for some real eye-openers this time, experiencing the miracles of modern medicine, eating bizarre bush tucker, meeting jungle tribespeople so isolated they have never seen a white man before, and narrowly avoiding death on numerous occasions. Then there's the flood that threatens to wipe out all he's worked for.
And when that's all sorted to his satisfaction and life begins to get a bit cushy, it's time to take on the jungles and tigers of Sumatra. Throw in the odd corrupt official, heart-stopping boat ride in the dark, wild buffalo encounter, a round-the-world trip with more trips across the Argentinian-Brazilian border than Ross cares to remember, and trouble with the Sumatran locals, and surely it's time for Ross to bring his wife and kids over to join in the fun!
Get ready for more hilarious and heart-stopping tales from the author of An Accidental Bushman, Cannibals, Crocodiles and Cassowaries and The River is my Highway. This time the yarns go global!
This book contains some 100 photographs from Ross's vast collection, which richly illustrate his writing.

About the Author

Ross Lockyer, now in his late 70s, is retired and living with his wife Lestari near Kerikeri, Bay of Islands, in the far north of New Zealand. Friends have been telling him for over 30 years that he should write a book about his life and adventures in the forestry industry and the jungles of Asia and the Pacific. In 2013 he put pen to paper and started writing - "the book".


Nine years later that one book has expanded into five books. The first three books, "An Accidental Bushman", "Cannibals, Crocodiles and Cassowaries" and "The River is my Highway", have been published and have sold over a thousand copies to date. The fourth book "Meanwhile, Back in the Jungle..." was published in November 2022 and is now available for purchase. Book five is scheduled to be published later in 2023.



Ross spent much of his life living and working in the forestry and logging industry in remote locations in Asia and the Pacific (Papua New Guinea, Irian Jaya/Indonesian West Papua, Borneo, Sumatra, Burma, Thailand, Philippines, Kiribati and others).



With a gung-ho approach to life (and his own safety), Ross threw himself into his work and immersed himself in the local cultures and communities wherever he went, learning the languages and customs that helped him fit in and do his job. He had many hair-raising adventures and close scrapes, and he encountered many amazing people wherever he went.