My guide Rul, picked me up for lunch at Coto Nusantara – small bowls of brown soup/gravy arrived with cooked offal and grisly bits served with rice. Mental note to self: must tell my guide, that I only eat seafood!!

Off to hunt a beautiful sunset at Kuri Cadi beach, one hour’s drive from Makassar, with an outlook to the Pabbiring Islands, the last half hour of which was along a potholed rocky road making for a jolty ride! And the rickety bridges. Oh my. Anyway, the sunset was worth it. 

Seafood dinner back in Makassar before we head that night to do some astral photography in Berua village, in Rammang Rammang.

Did Rul mention to me that we would access the village by motorised canoe and held flashlight, that we would be staying the night, sleeping on the floor of the canoe drivers tin hut? No, he bloody did not! Imagine my surprise??? A hard night – literally! Mental note to self: must get Rul to give me precise minute details of next parts of journey!

We were able to get a passable Milky Way shot.