From the Logbook...Jujang Parit (GoPro Pictures)

 Last week I had the opportunity to go into a village called Jujang Parit.  It's a tiny little place about an hour and a half from PalangkaRaya.  All of these photos were taken from my GoPro camera mounted on the wing.  The above photo shows me circling the village a few times.  It's important to gather enough data to make a safe landing, docking, un-docking, and takeoff while circling the village.  If I can't gather enough data while I'm overhead to ensure a safe outcome of all of those categories, I simply won't land.  It's not worth it.

 After I determined that it would be safe to operate in Jujang Parit that day, I decided to make the landing.  The river can just be seen on the left side of the photo above.

This is the abort point at Jujang Parit.  If something is wrong with my flying technique, something comes onto the river, etc. this is the last point at which I can safely go-around and out-climb the terrain in front of me.  After the abort point, regardless of what happens, I am committed to land.

 Everything looked good at my abort point, so I elected to "commit" to the landing.  In the above photo you can see the airplane shadow becoming closer and closer until the shadow actually touches the airplane; a landing has just occurred.

After touchdown I retracted flaps and reduced power to idle.  The river current was very strong that particular day due to recent rains.

As I transitioned off of the "step" and into "boat-mode" I approached the right side of the river in order to turn around 180 degrees to the left and drive to our dock.

Just as I cut the power to the engine I jumped out of the airplane in order to make sure the airplane was going to get tied up correctly.  Our normal helper wasn't there and I wanted to quickly confirm that my airplane wasn't going to go anywhere.  Like I mentioned before...the current was ripping!  Notice the two guys on the right float pulling against the rope as they prepare to tie the airplane off.

After I confirmed the airplane was securely attached to the dock, my passengers could deplane and I began to prepare to gather more passengers and get ready to takeoff.  Flying float planes is fun!