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sorry for the late update to post #3 (=as our internet currently misbehaves again...) it's the HL23 model

about half an hour ago i had an encounter with a land crab (who -- as the name suggests-- live on land rather than near the ocean. they can be found waayys up in the mountains and usually come out after rain. not sure how common this is for crustaceans, but the females carry the young ones with...

i have a fenix (exact name escapes me right now -- will check later!) which i have since late 2015, 8years of it in tropical conditions. runs on a single AA and the "3second switch" is simply brilliant

a troop of howling monkeys were LITERALLY in the trees above my hut this morning -- and they are called "howlers" for a reason... (==they start their "concert" long before sunrise which makes sleeping somewhat impossible...)

sharpening pucks (for axes etc.) don't exist here and buying one online would cost me 3x more in shipping and import than what the puck costs... :-(

thanks for your infos. so far it's just ideas i'm playing with (as i've to make some more money first...) but i'll keep it in mind for when things improve a bit:finger: sadly diamond or ceramic stones are nonexistent here, so buying online would be my only option...

i'm not sure if it's still available or how expensive it would be to produce in small quantities, but the camo pattern of the NVA (== the armed forces of what INCORRECTLY gets called East GERMany) was "raintarn" -- an olive green base with little stripes in brown. from a few meters away the...

i'm interested in a larger diamond stone for sharpening farm tools, all what's available here are crappy synthetic stones which are softer than the tools you try to sharpen...

how good is the quality of their stuff?! some of those items look suspiciously low-price, but i'm tempted to get one or two stones once i've the funds and providing the costa rican government doesn't rip me off with import costs...

not spectacular in itself, but yesterday i went across our moat (=the small river separating the farm where i live from civilization) and saw a swarm of small fish migrating upriver -- when i returned an our later they were still migrating ... never seen anything like it before

good to know as i've some old files (they don't last very long in our tropical climate :-( ) which i'm planning to repurpose...

●"little ben" (==the Ben Orford i received last year from a very generous fellow member as a gift) lays at night onder my pillow and at daytime "sits" in a baldric/ shoulder holster across my chest when it's "jungle time" (and as i'm typing right now) ●Leatherman "surge" on my belt ●usually a...

would it be possible to take a case hardened file/ striker and to redo the heat treatment?!

yes, forgot to mention: the crater is in the desert near Halls Creek in northern W.A. ; i would however suggest taking 4WD instead of a Ford Festiva for a trip to Wolf Creek :P (although my beloved "festiva" performed well!)

it's the world's second largest asteroid crater on land, about 800m across and 300000 years old ; there's also a (horror) movie called "wolf creek" which was filmed after i went there...

ahh... i confess just using my spoon...

:emoji_thinking:

from my personal experience in Australia, Kangaroo Island, Aotearoa and South Korea i can recommend wwoofing -- with one exception (restoration island) it was a lot of great experiences, incl. 10weeks with Aborigines.... i kept in touch with some hosts for many years and were friends with...

and "buffalo chips" on the north american prairies... i used dried cow pats as fuel on my way back from Wolf Creek Crater in 2005, too and it did the job to cook my diner

please forgive me my shocking lack of knowledge, but what is it used for?!