The Lost Land of the Volcano - BBC1 9.00pm Tuesday
The Lost Land of the Volcano - BBC1 9.00pm Tuesday
Author
Discussion

Fezant Pluckah

Original Poster:

1,711 posts

228 months

Monday 7th September 2009
quotequote all
This series was made by the same team who went to Guyana and filmed The Lost Land of the Jaguar. It was made in and around an extinct volcano called Mt Bosavi, in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Should make for compelling viewig if you like wildlife!

Fezant Pluckah

Original Poster:

1,711 posts

228 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
quotequote all
Bump. Just in case anyone's interested....

robinhood21

30,938 posts

249 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
quotequote all
It does look rather interesting so will be recording it as, will be watching The Choir (very wonderbra uplifting) on Beeb2.

zac510

5,546 posts

223 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
quotequote all
They've been bigging it up on the BBC News website lately. I'm looking forward to it smile

BrabusMog

21,061 posts

203 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
quotequote all
Looks promising! Looking forward to seeing that weird bug.

SirClarke

633 posts

193 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
quotequote all
Wow that stick insect is fantastic. Puts my wee (6 inch odd) bugggers to shame!





Edited by SirClarke on Tuesday 8th September 21:10

BrabusMog

21,061 posts

203 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
quotequote all
Really enjoying this, but the guy holding the possum is such a bloody mincer hehe

FourWheelDrift

91,137 posts

301 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
quotequote all
The fungus that infects ants, sticks them to leaves and then grows out of them. Weird, almost like a film plot idea.

okgo

40,700 posts

215 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
quotequote all
FourWheelDrift said:
The fungus that infects ants, sticks them to leaves and then grows out of them. Weird, almost like a film plot idea.
That scared me.

zac510

5,546 posts

223 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
quotequote all
That fungus was cool.

The dramatic music all the time was not frown

qooqiiu

752 posts

214 months

Wednesday 9th September 2009
quotequote all
Fantastic programme!

I would have loved to go inside that waterfall...speed boat down that river...trek through that jungle.


Fezant Pluckah

Original Poster:

1,711 posts

228 months

Wednesday 9th September 2009
quotequote all
qooqiiu said:
Fantastic programme!

I would have loved to go inside that waterfall...speed boat down that river...trek through that jungle.
Ahem... Look at my profile wink

qooqiiu

752 posts

214 months

Wednesday 9th September 2009
quotequote all
hehe...

I'm looking jimbo, im looking. biggrin

Fezant Pluckah

Original Poster:

1,711 posts

228 months

Thursday 24th September 2009
quotequote all
Did anyone see the grand finale of this series on Tuesday night! Awesome!

Here's some of my piccies of birdies I took in PNG:





A couple of cuscus I "rescued" at a market up in the Southern Highlands. I bought them, and took them down the track into the rainforest and let them go. If I hadn't they would have been eaten, and they were too cute to let that happen. I suspect they would have been caught a few days later but it made me feel happy at the time!



Rabaul Harbour, where the volcano in the last eposide was filmed.



Megapode nests



Megapode eggs. We boiled a few in a hot spring and ate them. They're disgusting, really rich and sickly, but the locals like them. I imagine with 20 pints of milk one of them may just make a nice scrambled egg on toast!





FourWheelDrift

91,137 posts

301 months

Thursday 24th September 2009
quotequote all
I saw it, the crater of Mount Bosavi was like something out of a Jules Verne Lost word story and the helicopter ride in like the approach at the beginning of Jurassic Park.

And their new discovery, the Bosavi Woolly Rat, the largest true rat in the world.




When George of the jungle was dropped off on the crater lip and set up the moth net and light bulb for that night I was amazed at how many he had there, all over the place and him, and every one seemed to be different.

zac510

5,546 posts

223 months

Thursday 24th September 2009
quotequote all
I did watch the finale , I still hated the almost constant background music and the doom and gloom voiceovers but the content was amazing.

SirClarke

633 posts

193 months

Thursday 24th September 2009
quotequote all
Fezant Pluckah said:
Did anyone see the grand finale of this series on Tuesday night! Awesome!

Here's some of my piccies of birdies I took in PNG:

lots of nice pictures
Nice pics, what an awesome place to visit. And good job with the cus cus rescue, I think i'd struggle to visit any 3rd world market place where bush meat was being sold.

I was pleased when in the 2nd episode George McGavin held up a stink insect exactely the same as the ones I keep downstairs and exclaimed that it was "a monster" smile

Great series and the location for the last episode was stunning. The moth sequence showing the sheer diversity and number that could be found there was brilliant.