Karimunjawa Favorites

Favorite thing: the abudant coral reef can be found around the islands. they're beautiful and can be seen just from above the water.
please don't step on them, take care of them, and don't throw garbage on the ocean.
compare to bali or lombok, the islands are so isolated, sometimes we were the only ones there and the corals are probably still untouched.

Favorite thing: from the book sejarah kecil petite histoire indonesia by rosihan anwar:

at the beginning of 18th century, the islands were pirates's nest. the pirates were usually came from bugis.

during the dutch colonial time at the beginning of 18th century, a german named von michalovski was sent to clean the pirates from the islands and he became the head of the islands. he built a big house called hoge huis. later, he married a half dutch half timor girl named joanna.

Favorite thing: - karimun jawa is a group of islands located 90 km north east of jepara, central java.
- there are 27 islands but only 7 of them are inhabitated.
- the name of the group came from the biggest island's name: karimun jawa.
- activities you can do there: diving , snorkeling, see turtles , sharks, etc.
- most of the islands are surrounded by sandy beaches and fringing coral reefs
- it's a marine nature reserve (cagar alam laut).

Favorite thing: ~ ecosystem type: rainforest plain with seagrass, algae, mangrove and coral reef
~ stands from 27 islands in the chain of archipelago
~ specialities vegetation: Crystocalyx macrophyla
~ type of algae: green, brown and red
~ mangrove with kind of vegetation: Terminalia cattapa, Casuarina equisetifolia, Scaerota frustescens, Strebus asper, Hibiscus tiliaceus and Rhizophora mucronata
~ kind of coral reefs: fringing reef, barrier reef and patch reef. stands from 51 genus, 90 types of hard corals and 242 species of fish.
~ protected items on the sea: Antiphates spp, Tubipora musica, Cassis cornuta, Charonia tritonis, Nautilus pompillius, Turbo marmoratus and 6 types of kima
~ animal on land: Cervus timorensis subspec, Macaca fascicularis karimondjawae, 40 kinds of birds like Ducula aenea, Haliaeetus leucogaster [warning: so rarely found nowadays], Pycnonotus goiavier, Psittacula alexandri, Eretmochelys imbricata, Chelonia mydas and local snake called 'edor'

* sources: 45 national parks of indonesia and my handbook of marine biology [in the uni, yiippiiiiii after awaiting such a long time >> nice to read it again :) thanks to my professor rp suroso who taught me!!!!]
* tips: bring your mask and binoculars to see these lists.

Fondest memory: well, this is funny story about the main role of this "movie" dalphin and puffin on hols in karimunjawa. why? since we have dependency into some medicine. i am in treatment to get normal redblood cells lifetime [normal people is about 120 days/cell and mine just 90 days/cell] so i have to eat something which addressed "rabbit drops" by dalphin. and the opposite, he has to eat glyco 2 mg due his DNA structure. but it's not big deal for us, we can still enjoy more and more of this trip as usual. but, should be noted, we sometimes smile if remember an article about patients can get halucination because of these medicines. true or false, both of us like to ask to each other, "feel something weird?" and the answer always, "yes, i see the greenmice on the ceiling. and hand weaving and everything can be so glittering." hihihihii, we can not stop laugh if the topic of conversation goes to glyco and rabbit drops. always glittering, greenmice and hand weaving :D