Saturday 25th October, from the base camp.

Dr Kadar and Christophe came back in the morning with rainbow fish they caught the night before. They may have found a new species!

Jean-Christophe, a palm tree specialist, is also pleased with the samplings he collected over the last few days. He already has a large quantity of samples that he leaves to dry in newspapers. He has 7 duplicates for every species in order to send them to different European and Indonesian reference herbariums.

Jean-Christophe preparing his palm tree samples – Copyright : S. Quérouil / IRD

For its part, the Airaha 2 went to sea for several days and will not come back until the beginning of next week.

(translated by Lara Denis, L2 SVC–Life & Earth Sciences–UM2, France)