Another day, another government office. Satria, Imran, Hafidz, and I spent the morning meeting with officials from the forestry department in Makassar to obtain our final (final, final, final) piece of permitting paperwork. Not done yet, but it will work out now. We then got on board a plane (the 6th plane of this trip so far), and after an hour descended out of the clouds over Lake Towuti (left-hand photo). It was a sight for sore eyes. We spent the afternoon on errands (the new task for the coming week)- rechecking the equipment, checking housing for the team, chasing a bank transfer from Germany, measuring the research house yard for parking a 40' trailer... you get the picture. Really looking forward to getting the whole team here next week! (TDP on facebook)