Teminabuan, - Maikel Kladit conveyed the planned trip for the second day in Kelihi hamlet on Wednesday (11/14). The second day itinerary, said Maikel, includes seeing how to install pig and bird snares, seeing the potential of resin and other forest potentials and finally at night seeing the Papuan Kangaroo (Lao-Lao).

We started walking out of the hut at 10:00 a.m., to the place where the boar was installed. After 30 minutes of traveling, we arrived at the location of the snare installation. Mr. Markus began to demonstrate the stages of installing snares.

Before installing the snare, observations were first made, to predict the path of the path that the wild boar would pass to the mud puddle. After getting the path, then the location of the snare installation is determined.

Start by cutting a number of sapling categories, then take a branch branch with a free length of about 30 cm to make a snare strap stopper. Then some 15-20 cm twigs are made bridges. If the bridge is stepped on by an animal's foot, the rope support branch will fall, and the sapling size that is planted and made curved will bounce up to the top. At the same time, the circle of rope made on the bridge of the goal immediately shrinks and binds the legs of the animal stepping on the bridge.

In the process of making the noose, Father Markus said, that wild boar is an animal that can know of foreign objects, and will avoid it. Therefore, the rope that is made into a trap circle must be covered with dry leaves. So that there is no rope on the line.

Elna wants to see what the snare works like, so a trial is done. The first is done by Maikel, then the second by Imam. After that, the journey continues to the location of the installation of bird snares. The principle is almost the same as the installation of pig snares.

In this practice, Elna was also notified of tips when trying to check the pig's snare installed. When you want to approach the location of the snare installation, it must first be spotted from a distance, to avoid a counterattack from the wild boar that is caught by the snare.

"Wild boar which is usually caught in a snare, he will attack again. If the rope breaks, this is very dangerous, because the boar will wait for the snare at that location. This is what we always watch out for in the snare installation," Maikel explained.

From the location of the snare installation, the trip is continued to the location of the resin tree. However, along the road that was passed, we also found large size Merbau trees with diameters above 100 cm.

A variety of birds chirp menamani us all the way down this forest. Now, after making sure Elna saw the resin tree and took the dried gum resin, Maikel directed us to return to the hut.

Around 3:00 p.m., we arrived back at the lodge. Bathe cleanse the body, eat sober, then take a short break to continue the night trip to see Lao-Lao.

At 7:00 p.m., Maikel divided the road team that night in two teams. However, this time Elna confirmed that she did not participate, because it was a bit tired. The team led by Maikel consisted of Alink and Yance, while the Imam and I walked with Mr. Markus. While Jordan, was asked to accompany Elna in the hut and Nikson had already gone out looking for fish on the cape since afternoon, using a hook.

The trip that night with Imam and Mr. Markus for 4 hours, we did not succeed in seeing Lao-Lao. While Maikel, Alink and Yance managed to see the Lao-Lao movement and managed to record it. The recording of the Lao-Lao movement was later shown to Elna. Although he didn't see it directly, he could see the video.

The next morning, Thursday (11/15), we left the Kelihi hut, returning to Sira and Manggroholo villages. The return route still uses the same route, which is walking for 1 hour to Tanjung, then using a longboat along the waters in the Mangrove forest area until arriving at the market port of Teminabuan Ampera.

In Ampera Market, we ate together, after that we communicated with the office in Manokwari and other parties, due to the availability of cellular data networks. Because after walking to Kampung Sira and Manggroholo, cellular networks will be lost and unreachable.

At 11.00 we left the Ampera Teminabuan market, heading to Kampung Sira and Manggroholo. An hour later, we arrived in Sira Village, then took a short break. In the evening, we had a joint meeting. During the meeting, there were present a number of youth and several community leaders and women.

In this meeting, Elna conveyed her feelings while in Kampung and walked in the village forests of Sira and Manggroholo. What did Elna say? ... (continued)